Hi This time i am wondering if anyone has been to vasser college to see the twsin items there? And if so is it worth the trip? I have been to every place twain has been and berkely. This is the last place in usa. Thanks Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/ghei36> ________________________________ From: Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Barbara Schmidt <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 8:29:27 PM To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Minor Geographical Quibble Scott, In MT’s NOTEBOOKS & JOURNALS, Vol. 2, p. 144 — Clemens corrects the town name “Leuch” to “Bad-Leuk.” He writes: “... looked down on steep precipice & town of <Leuch> Bad-Leuk.” I emailed a photo of that page from this volume to your personal email. Overall, I think you will find additional good details in Vol. 2 for your projects. Barb On Tuesday, March 23, 2021, Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > That letter contains a wonderful description of Gemmi Pass but alas has no > name for the village(s) he came to after crossing the pass. I doubt Twain > would have confused the names as he references Baedeker's guidebook in his > description of descending from the pass. Fears' reference is merely Rodney > 106. Then, he notes an entry in his notebook. I've ordered a used copy of > Volume II. > > On 3/23/21 6:26 AM, Barbara Schmidt wrote: > >> This online letter to Livy written from Leukerbad may be of interest — >> https://www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=letters/UCCL >> 01589.xml;query=Leukerbad;searchAll=;sectionType1=;sectionTy >> pe2=;sectionType3=;sectionType4=;sectionType5=;style=letter;brand=mtp#1 >> >> Barb >> >> On Tuesday, March 23, 2021, Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> Interesting as Twain, at least in "A Tramp Abroad" was unable to >>> distinguish between the two towns. I can't check his journal or >>> notebooks, >>> however. /The town in the valley is called Leuk or Leukerbad. We pointed >>> our course toward it, down a verdant slope which was adorned with fringed >>> gentians and other flowers, and presently entered the narrow alleys of >>> the >>> outskirts and waded toward the middle of the town through liquid >>> "fertilizer." They ought to either pave that village or organize a >>> ferry./ >>> >>> On 3/22/21 7:36 PM, Barbara Schmidt wrote: >>> >>> I checked the passage in Rodney’s MARK TWAIN OVERSEAS, p. 106. Rodney >>>> does >>>> not mention Leukerbad. >>>> >>>> Barb >>>> >>>> On Monday, March 22, 2021, Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>>> >>>> I have recently relocated my twainsgeography site to Amazon's cloud >>>> server >>>> >>>>> and am combing through my site for bothersome details. For those >>>>> interested in such minutia, Fears' Day by Day contains this passage: >>>>> >>>>> "The pair set off with an old guide and climbed on foot up through the >>>>> pass, coming down a precipitous trail to the village of*Leuk***(a short >>>>> distance from*Leukerbad*)[Rodney 106]." >>>>> >>>>> Fears apparently got this from Robert Rodney's "Mark Twain Overseas". >>>>> >>>>> The order of villages is actually reversed. Leukerbad is the village >>>>> with >>>>> the baths and is found at the base of Gemmi Pass. Leuk is the town to >>>>> the >>>>> south of Leukerbad. >>>>> >>>>> Just thought I'd mention it... http://twainsgeography.com/con >>>>> tent/kandersteg-leukerbad >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>