That letter contains a wonderful description of Gemmi Pass but alas has 
no name for the village(s) he came to after crossing the pass.  I doubt 
Twain would have confused the names as he references Baedeker's 
guidebook in his description of descending from the pass.  Fears' 
reference is merely Rodney 106.  Then, he notes an entry in his 
notebook.  I've ordered a used copy of Volume II.

On 3/23/21 6:26 AM, Barbara Schmidt wrote:
> This online letter to Livy written from Leukerbad may be of interest —
> https://www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=letters/UCCL01589.xml;query=Leukerbad;searchAll=;sectionType1=;sectionType2=;sectionType3=;sectionType4=;sectionType5=;style=letter;brand=mtp#1
>
>   Barb
>
> On Tuesday, March 23, 2021, Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Interesting as Twain, at least in "A Tramp Abroad" was unable to
>> distinguish between the two towns.  I can't check his journal or notebooks,
>> however. /The town in the valley is called Leuk or Leukerbad. We pointed
>> our course toward it, down a verdant slope which was adorned with fringed
>> gentians and other flowers, and presently entered the narrow alleys of the
>> outskirts and waded toward the middle of the town through liquid
>> "fertilizer." They ought to either pave that village or organize a ferry./
>>
>> On 3/22/21 7:36 PM, Barbara Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>> I checked the passage in Rodney’s MARK TWAIN OVERSEAS, p. 106.  Rodney
>>> does
>>> not mention Leukerbad.
>>>
>>> Barb
>>>
>>> On Monday, March 22, 2021, Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have recently relocated my twainsgeography site to Amazon's cloud server
>>>> and am combing through my site for bothersome details.  For those
>>>> interested in such minutia, Fears' Day by Day contains this passage:
>>>>
>>>> "The pair set off with an old guide and climbed on foot up through the
>>>> pass, coming down a precipitous trail to the village of*Leuk***(a short
>>>> distance from*Leukerbad*)[Rodney 106]."
>>>>
>>>> Fears apparently got this from Robert Rodney's "Mark Twain Overseas".
>>>>
>>>> The order of villages is actually reversed.  Leukerbad is the village
>>>> with
>>>> the baths and is found at the base of Gemmi Pass.  Leuk is the town to
>>>> the
>>>> south of Leukerbad.
>>>>
>>>> Just thought I'd mention it... http://twainsgeography.com/con
>>>> tent/kandersteg-leukerbad
>>>>
>>>>