Yes, all of them. Also reviewed the collection at UC Berkeley. My best chance is to find some reference to surfing in a local paper's review of his lecture. I’m hoping as many of those papers digitize their archives something might turn up. Thanks, Dave Matuszak > On Apr 19, 2020, at 4:30 PM, Arianne . <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Have you checked out his letters from the sandwich islands? > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 7:00 PM David Matuszak <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > >> Phil, >> >> Welcome. I’ll ask you a question I posed to our forum several years ago >> while researching a book that I wrote: >> >> Have you ever come across any reference to Twain’s attempt at surfing >> during his lecture tours, e.g., lecture reviews, letters, diaries, etc.? >> His mention of it in Roughing It, is among the very few references he >> apparently made to his failed attempt. >> >> I wrote a feature about Twain and surfing in my San Onofre surfing history. >> http://pacificsunset.com/?page_id=784 >> >> Thanks, >> Dave Matuszak >> >>> On Apr 16, 2020, at 2:23 PM, Philip Bauer <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> >>> Hey Scott, I am a newer Mark Twain scholar. When I give talks, I talk >> about how close Twain got to Sandusky OH where I live. In his 1869 lecture >> tour, he probably criss-crossed here. >>> He spoke in Cleveland and then went to Toledo and then back to Norwalk >> (about 10 miles south of Sandusky). Do you happen to know his route? >> There was the Lake Shore Electric Railroad that went between Toledo and >> Cleveland with Sandusky mid-line and Norwalk on another trunk. Can you >> possibly confirm that he took the Lake Shore Electric? Thanks, Phil >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 4/16/2020 1:22 PM, scott wrote: >>>> Sam wrote Livy from Toledo, while on the Twain-Cable tour, about the >>>> prettiest furniture he'd seen in a hotel. I believe I have determined >>>> that the hotel was The Hibbard House in Jackson, MI. Ironically, it >>>> was a replacement for this hotel that was awarded an historical >>>> building status, The Otsego Hotel. I mention this for those interested >>>> in Twain landmarks. >> > -- > Arianne Laidlaw A '58