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August 7 Wednesday – Sam wrote from Lang’s Hotel in Heidelberg to Livy. He’d received her note and thanked her.

“We have had a long & most enjoyable day in a carriage up to Hirschhorn & back with Smith” [MTLE 3: 76].

(Edward Meigs Smith) is the full name given in the Aug. 20 letter to Frank Bliss.) The travelers spent the day in Heidelberg, with Sam noting a church there with a partition—one side Catholic, the other Protestant [MTNJ 2: 130].

Theodore W. Crane for Langdon & Co. wrote to Sam on Charles E. Perkins to Crane Aug. 4 letter: “Will you advise Mr Perkins what your wishes are—nothing new—all well except Andrew’s Mother who is very sick. Yours…”  [MTP]. Note: Perkins did not want to “take the responsibility of acting” for Clemens in the matter of Slote & Co. owing.

Entry Date
Links to Twain's Geography Entries
A Tramp Abroad: Day By Day
Germany Tramp: Day By Day
DBD: A Tramp Abroad
Editor Note
Bædeker mentions Lang's Private Hotel in Heidelberg. "The Rhine, from Rotterdam to Constance handbook for travellers, 1886, but provides no information.

Day By Day Acknowledgment

Mark Twain Day By Day was originally a print reference, meticulously created by David Fears, who has generously made this work available, via the Center for Mark Twain Studies, as a digital edition.