Scott,
After I had sent the email and *re-read* your request, I realized you were
looking for specifics that I had not helped.
Note to self: take time to fully grasp the question; don't jump ahead.
Your project is a fascinating one.
Miki

On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 1:52 AM Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Thank you, Miki, for taking the time to respond to my query.  I'm
> actually looking to find Sam and Livy's locations on a very specific
> period, when they departed Berlin - which Fears notes as February 29,
> and when they arrived in Merton, March 3 or 4, 1892. Fears makes note of
> two letters in relation to this thousand mile journey: February 21, to
> McClure, and March 21 to Moffett.  The contents of these letters is not
> available on-line. Given Twain's general habits of train travel. he must
> have stopped to rest at least twice on this journey.  If I can get some
> town and/or village names, I can try to guess at the railways the
> Clemenses traveled over.
>
> On 10/5/20 12:29 PM, miki pfeffer wrote:
> > Scott,
> > Livy also recommends to Grace July 1, 1892, that the "trip over the St.
> > Gothard" as a "most wonderful trip."
> > Miki
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 12:50 PM Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> In February of 1892 Sam and Livy departed Berlin  for the warmer climes
> >> of the French Riviera, the town of Merton.  I'm attempting to map the
> >> route they took but can find no indication of the towns they may have
> >> passed through.  I have an 1896 map that shows the railroads that
> >> existed in Europe at that time and it displays quite a complex web.
> >>
> >> It seems likely they returned via the same route they took to get to
> >> Berlin, through Frankfurt and Basel, but I don't know that.
> >>
> >> I don't have access to Sam's 1892 journals and Fears makes no mention of
> >> stops on the way.  Any information on this would be greatly appreciated.
> >>
> >
>


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Miki Pfeffer, Ph D
*A** New Orlean**s Author i**n Mark Twain's Court: *
*Letters from Grace King's New England Sojourns   *
(LSU Press, 2019)
*Southern Ladies and Suffragists: Julia Ward Howe and Women's Rights at the
1884 New Orleans World's Fair   *(University Press of Mississippi, 2014)