I'm so glad, Scott. Miki On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 10:52 AM Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > It seems, with your second note about St. Gothard - Gotthard Pass - > you've been of great help to me. I knew I had reference to Gotthard in > my site, so I looked it up and found it was a note about Joe Twichell, > he took a solo three day trip there in 1878 while Twain remained in > Lucerne. So I checked my 1898 map of railway routes and a tunnel > through the pass did exist. It was opened in 1882. This provides a > direct route to Milan and then to Genoa. > > So, you've been of great help to me. > > > On 10/6/20 7:38 AM, miki pfeffer wrote: > > Scott, > > After I had sent the email and *re-read* your request, I realized you > were > > looking for specifics that I had not helped. > > Note to self: take time to fully grasp the question; don't jump ahead. > > Your project is a fascinating one. > > Miki > > > > On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 1:52 AM Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > >> Thank you, Miki, for taking the time to respond to my query. I'm > >> actually looking to find Sam and Livy's locations on a very specific > >> period, when they departed Berlin - which Fears notes as February 29, > >> and when they arrived in Merton, March 3 or 4, 1892. Fears makes note of > >> two letters in relation to this thousand mile journey: February 21, to > >> McClure, and March 21 to Moffett. The contents of these letters is not > >> available on-line. Given Twain's general habits of train travel. he must > >> have stopped to rest at least twice on this journey. If I can get some > >> town and/or village names, I can try to guess at the railways the > >> Clemenses traveled over. > >> > >> On 10/5/20 12:29 PM, miki pfeffer wrote: > >>> Scott, > >>> Livy also recommends to Grace July 1, 1892, that the "trip over the St. > >>> Gothard" as a "most wonderful trip." > >>> Miki > >>> > >>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 12:50 PM Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> > >> wrote: > >>>> In February of 1892 Sam and Livy departed Berlin for the warmer > climes > >>>> of the French Riviera, the town of Merton. I'm attempting to map the > >>>> route they took but can find no indication of the towns they may have > >>>> passed through. I have an 1896 map that shows the railroads that > >>>> existed in Europe at that time and it displays quite a complex web. > >>>> > >>>> It seems likely they returned via the same route they took to get to > >>>> Berlin, through Frankfurt and Basel, but I don't know that. > >>>> > >>>> I don't have access to Sam's 1892 journals and Fears makes no mention > of > >>>> stops on the way. Any information on this would be greatly > appreciated. > >>>> > > > -- Miki Pfeffer, Ph D *A** New Orlean**s Author i**n Mark Twain's Court: * *Letters from Grace King's New England Sojourns * (LSU Press, 2019) *Southern Ladies and Suffragists: Julia Ward Howe and Women's Rights at the 1884 New Orleans World's Fair *(University Press of Mississippi, 2014)