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Barbara Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>
Thu, 6 Oct 2022 20:16:39 -0500
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Scott,

That is not what I am seeing for Samuel Moffett -- from Aug 6-9 he is in
Seattle; from Aug 10-12 he is in Tacoma; from Aug 14-15 he is in Seattle.

Barb

On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 8:03 PM Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Thanks again, Barbara.  MTP hasn't gotten to that date with their texts
> but it does appear that Sam Moffett could not have actually traveled
> with the entourage.  Apparently he was in Berkeley, CA August 4;
> Victoria BC and Seattle August 6; Seattle on the 7th and 8th; then back
> to Berkeley by the 9th of August - judging by the origin of letters listed.
>
> On 10/6/22 15:42, Barbara Schmidt wrote:
> > Scott -- Moffett was a prolific letter writer.  You can almost track his
> > movements by the letters he wrote during that time frame. Many are
> indexed
> > online at the Mark Twain Project.  Example --
> >
> >
> https://www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/search?text=Samuel%20moffett;field1=writer;iso-year=1893;iso-year-max=1900;category=letters;style=mtp;brand=mtp;sort=date;startDoc=26https://www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/search?text=Samuel%20moffett;field1=writer;iso-year=1893;iso-year-max=1900;category=letters;style=mtp;brand=mtp;sort=date;startDoc=26
> >
> > Barb
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 1:52 PM Scott Holmes<[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> He most certainly is included.  I wonder why Pond did not mention him as
> >> part of the entourage.  Moffett likely followed on to Portland then
> >> possibly continued to San Francisco on his own.  Did he, perhaps,
> >> publish anything regarding the North American trip?
> >>
> >> On 10/6/22 11:36, Barbara Schmidt wrote:
> >>> The OVERLAND WITH MARK TWAIN volume features photos of Moffett in
> Tacoma,
> >>> Washington on August 13 and aboard the U.S.S. MOHICAN ( p. 73, 75).
> >>>
> >>> Barb
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 12:43 PM Scott Holmes<[log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
> >>>> I've come across a note in the Day By Day entry for August 1, 1908.
> >>>> This from an obituary notice in the New York Times, that "...and when
> >>>> Mr. Clemens
> >>>> started on his trip around the world in 1894, [sic 1895] Mr.
> >>>> Moffett accompanied him across the Continent as far as San
> >>>> Francisco."    This trip did not include San Francisco and Sam Moffett
> >>>> is not mentioned by Major Pond in his journal - as per the Karanovich
> >>>> version in the "Overland with Mark Twain" volume from 1992.  Is the
> New
> >>>> York Times wholly in error?
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> /Unaffiliated Geographer and Twain aficionado/
> >>>>
> >> --
> >> /Unaffiliated Geographer and Twain aficionado/
> >>
> --
> /Unaffiliated Geographer and Twain aficionado/
>

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