Indeed!

On Mon, Aug 23, 2021, 5:10 PM Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Thanks Miki.  Willis's book seems to make the issue even more obscure.
> I still have no information on the luxury car - who owned it, etc.  Also
> Willis implies the car was used to travel to Elmira in June of 1876
> whereas Fears uses it for the return trip to Hartford in September. So
> it goes ....
>
> On 8/23/21 2:38 PM, miki pfeffer wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 23, 2021, 4:26 PM Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> In my skimming through Day By Day I found this reference for September
> >> 11, 1876:
> >>
> >> "The Clemens family returned home to Hartford [Sept 14 to Fairbanks].
> >> The train trip from Elmira to Hartford took ten hours, and always
> >> exhausted Livy. On this trip Sam first hired a sleeping car, which gave
> >> the family privacy and lessened the stress for Livy. Their German
> >> nursemaid, Rosina Hay, was able to keep the girls occupied and Sam
> >> wasn’t bothered by other passengers’ talk and autograph requests. Sam
> >> promised that the luxury of a private car would be a permanent one for
> >> the family [Willis 103]."
> >>
> >> Now, looking for references in Day By Day is difficult - I can find no
> >> entry of Willis but suspect it is Resa Willis.  I know nothing of her
> >> book but the Amazon write up leaves me in doubt.
> >>
> >> "In Resa Willis's affecting and fascinating biography, we meet a
> >> dignified, optimistic women who married young, raised three sons and a
> >> daughter,..."
> >>
> >> So, if anyone has a copy of her book, "Mark and Livy: The Love Story of
> >> Mark Twain and the Woman Who Almost Tamed Him",please see if any useful
> >> information might be had on page 103.  There is nothing about a sleeping
> >> cat in the letter to Fairbanks.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
>