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I don't know if plans went as recorded, but Livy wrote Grace King on May
28, 1891, that the family was going to Gascoigne, then Paris, Geneva, and
"some German baths" for herself and Twain's rheumatism. "The girls we shall
leave in a French family in Geneva," she wrote. Then, the Bayreuth festival
for ten days and perhaps a French town for six weeks. Then to settle in
Berlin for the winter where Clara would study piano and Susy voice (no
mention of Jean there).

Hope this is of interest.
Miki Pfeffer



On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 2:41 AM Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> On June 6, 1891 the Clemens family departed New York for France.  June
> 20th, they left Paris for Geneva where Susy and Clara were placed in a
> boarding school, and apparently the others went on to Annecy, Aix-les-
> Bains and finally back to Geneva July 19th.  I'm curious as the Jean's
> activities for this month. I have found no mention of her until Clara's
> memoirs from their stay in Marienbad.
>
> "During the latter part of our stay in that charming town, Mother went
> to Berlin to look for rooms and took my elder sister with her. Father,
> Jean, and our good maid Katie, were left behind."  Jean would be about
> 11 years old at this time.
>
>
> --
>  There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of
>                           in your philosophy.
>                         http://bscottholmes.com
>


-- 
Miki Pfeffer, Ph D
*A New Orleans Author in Mark Twain's Court: Letters from Grace King's New
England Sojourns *(fall 2019)
*Southern Ladies and Suffragists: Julia Ward Howe and Women's Rights at the
1884 New Orleans World's Fair*

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