Scott -- Moffett was a prolific letter writer. You can almost track his movements by the letters he wrote during that time frame. Many are indexed online at the Mark Twain Project. Example -- https://www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/search?text=Samuel%20moffett;field1=writer;iso-year=1893;iso-year-max=1900;category=letters;style=mtp;brand=mtp;sort=date;startDoc=26https://www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/search?text=Samuel%20moffett;field1=writer;iso-year=1893;iso-year-max=1900;category=letters;style=mtp;brand=mtp;sort=date;startDoc=26 Barb On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 1:52 PM Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > He most certainly is included. I wonder why Pond did not mention him as > part of the entourage. Moffett likely followed on to Portland then > possibly continued to San Francisco on his own. Did he, perhaps, > publish anything regarding the North American trip? > > On 10/6/22 11:36, Barbara Schmidt wrote: > > The OVERLAND WITH MARK TWAIN volume features photos of Moffett in Tacoma, > > Washington on August 13 and aboard the U.S.S. MOHICAN ( p. 73, 75). > > > > Barb > > > > On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 12:43 PM Scott Holmes<[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > >> I've come across a note in the Day By Day entry for August 1, 1908. > >> This from an obituary notice in the New York Times, that "...and when > >> Mr. Clemens > >> started on his trip around the world in 1894, [sic 1895] Mr. > >> Moffett accompanied him across the Continent as far as San > >> Francisco." This trip did not include San Francisco and Sam Moffett > >> is not mentioned by Major Pond in his journal - as per the Karanovich > >> version in the "Overland with Mark Twain" volume from 1992. Is the New > >> York Times wholly in error? > >> > >> -- > >> /Unaffiliated Geographer and Twain aficionado/ > >> > -- > /Unaffiliated Geographer and Twain aficionado/ >