Jules-- I have not visited the archives at Vassar but have used their resources. They have some amazing holdings: https://specialcollections.vassar.edu/exhibit-highlights/2006-2010/mark-twain/simpson.html Kevin @ Mac Donnell Rare Books 9307 Glenlake Drive Austin TX 78730 512-345-4139 Member: ABAA, ILAB, BSA You can browse our books at: www.macdonnellrarebooks.com ------ Original Message ------ From: "JULES AUSTIN HOJNOWSKI" <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: 3/26/2021 8:03:19 PM Subject: Vasser >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 >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >