The major event in Elmira in the Summer of 1880 was the Emancipation Day celebration, climaxing with a speech by Frederick Douglass. You might check out the materials I collected (and, in some cases, created) a couple years ago, which will also include allusions to some of the family's other activities during that Summer: https://marktwainstudies.com/lessonsofemancipation/ Best, *Matt Seybold, PhD* Associate Professor of American Literature & Mark Twain Studies Scholar-in-Residence, Center for Mark Twain Studies Editor, MarkTwainStudies.org Host, The American Vandal Podcast <https://marktwainstudies.com/the-american-vandal-podcast/> Peterson Chapel Vestry, Cowles Hall [log in to unmask] MattSeybold.com <https://www.elmira.edu/> On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 2:12 PM Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > There is very little mention of Quarry Farm in the Day By Day entries > for the summer of 1880. The family was in Elmira from June to > September. There was the birth of Jean and Livy seems to have been ill > for the duration of their stay - which seems to have been limited to the > Langdon home in Elmira. Twain finished the Prince and the Pauper and > there is some mention of his spending ten days at Quarry Farm at the > beginning of July. > > I suppose I will need to dig through some of his biographies for > details but I hope for some leads and/or suggestions from Twain-L > members about Twain's time at Quarry Farm for this season. I suspect he > may have just walked there and back when he wanted time to write. > > Even though "Twain's Geography" is no longer on-line, I continue to work > on it. > > -- > /Unaffiliated Geographer and Twain aficionado/ >