scott
12 January 2023
From page 168 The Life of Mark Twain - The Middle Years 1871-1891:
On account of Livy's delicate health, the Clemenses opted to vacation in 1875 at the ocean rather than in the hills above Elmira. On July 31, with De Quille in their company, the family left Hartford for Newport, Rhode Island, some ninety miles east. They took rooms at Bateman’s Point, which De Quille described as “a sort of half-hotel, half farm-house kept by Seth Bateman, a descendent of one of the original settlers of the place....