Precisely. I find it helpful for times and places AND when he includes MTP links. I'm still hoping to hear back from the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Historical Society. On 8/23/21 3:49 PM, Barbara Schmidt wrote: > Scott, > > MTDBD can be used as a good source for hints, but best to always verify > that info by checking and using the primary resources. > > Barb > > On Monday, August 23, 2021, Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Thank you, Barbara. This does look like the earliest use of a special car >> - four years later than indicated in Day By Day. Fears got it from Willis >> (the attribution is in his text) and apparently Willis found this letter >> but apparently forgot the date it was written. Near the bottom of the page >> Miki sent me is a note that Susie was four years old at this time - 1876 >> not 1880. >> >> On 8/23/21 3:16 PM, Barbara Schmidt wrote: >> >>> Scott, >>> >>> Rest Willis does quote the passage about Livy always going by special car >>> hereafter and sources it to a June 17, 1880 letter to Lilly Warner. It is >>> online here — >>> https://www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=letters/UCCL >>> 01814.xml;query=Warner;searchAll=;sectionType1=;sectionType2 >>> =;sectionType3=;sectionType4=;sectionType5=;style=letter;brand=mtp#1 >>>