In the absence of solid info about Jean’s activities at that time, I will dare to speculate, based on my knowledge of that age group: she was probably playing with her iPhone. -TR > On Aug 27, 2019, at 20:05, miki pfeffer <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > 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*