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Sandusky has not come up in any of my Twain mapping:
http://twainsgeography.com/gazetteer
On Thu, 2020-04-16 at 21:53 +0000, JULES AUSTIN HOJNOWSKI wrote:
> The nyc library has a journal that was kept by one of them on that
> trip i have looked at that jounal twice, but it has been years since
> i have seen it, i do not tecall seeing sandusky in the travel dates.
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> Jules a 50 year twain scholar ,:) ms in twain studies
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> Hey Scott, I am a newer Mark Twain scholar. When I give talks, I
> talk
> about how close Twain got to Sandusky OH where I live. In his 1869
> lecture tour, he probably criss-crossed here.
> He spoke in Cleveland and then went to Toledo and then back to
> Norwalk
> (about 10 miles south of Sandusky). Do you happen to know his route?
> There was the Lake Shore Electric Railroad that went between Toledo
> and
> Cleveland with Sandusky mid-line and Norwalk on another trunk. Can
> you
> possibly confirm that he took the Lake Shore Electric? Thanks,
> Phil
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> On 4/16/2020 1:22 PM, scott wrote:
> > Sam wrote Livy from Toledo, while on the Twain-Cable tour, about
> > the
> > prettiest furniture he'd seen in a hotel. I believe I have
> > determined
> > that the hotel was The Hibbard House in Jackson, MI. Ironically,
> > it
> > was a replacement for this hotel that was awarded an historical
> > building status, The Otsego Hotel. I mention this for those
> > interested
> > in Twain landmarks.
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