To Olivia L. Clemens
15 October 1871 • Bethlehem, Pa.
Bethlehem, Sunday
Livy darling, I got here at 4 oclock yesterday afternoon. It is now nearly noon, & still I don’t feel moved to begin studying my lecture1—so the wisdom of coming here so soon, is apparent. It is better that this feeling should be on me today than tomorrow. By tomorrow I shall be rested up & brisk.
The area in which Bloomington is situated was previously inhabited by the Delaware, Potawatomi, Miami, and Eel River Miami.
Bloomington was platted in 1818. A post office has been in operation at Bloomington since 1825. Bloomington was incorporated in 1827.
Mention of Bloomfield, IN is a mistake. In August of 1853 Sam took Frink's Stage to Bloomington, IL. Sam's letter to his mother states that he went to Bloomington, Il.
Sam and companions travel through Bologna, by train, enroute to Florence from Venice. Mark Twain Project: Quaker City Itinerary
Bædeker Northern Italy (1877) Route 43 page 270
For most of its 1,200 year history, Bremen was an independent city within the confederal jurisdiction of Germany's Holy Roman Empire.
Bridgeport is the most populous city and a major port in the U.S.
November 14, 1884
Email from Barbara Schmidt: 26 Feb. 2015
"As to Brockton, MA -- I did find a reference to a letter SLC wrote to Pond complaining that the Brockton venue had not been advertised sufficiently, and thus had a low turn out."
Mark Twain wrote about Hungary in his essay Stirring Times in Austria, published in Harper's Magazine, March 1898. He spent a week in Budapest in March of 1899 and gave a speech in honor of the jubilee celebration of the liberation of the Hungarian press, published as "German for the Hungarians."
August 23, 1853 Sam Clemens first passed through Buffalo on his way to New York.
August of 1869, he had bought into the Buffalo Express and became a resident of the city. He lived in an East Swan Street boardinghouse near the newspaper, thenm went on a lecture tour. Returning to Buffalo as a married man, he moved into a furnished house at 472 Delaware Avenue.
On May 22, 1849, Maj. William Williams visited Burlington, writing a brief description in his journal:[12]
Cambridge (/ˈkeɪmbrɪdʒ/[4] KAYM-brij) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
The area that would become Canton was inhabited for tens of thousands of years prior to European colonization.
The city of Canton, believed to be named in honor of Canton, Ohio,[6] predates the surrounding Lewis County by three years, having been founded in 1830, whereas the county would not be created from part of Marion county until 1833.[5] It was founded by Issac Bland, Robert Sinclair,
The city is named after Jean Baptiste de Girardot, who established a temporary trading post in the area around 1733. He was a French soldier stationed at Kaskaskia between 1704 and 1720 in the French colony of La Louisiane.
Charleston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston metropolitan area. The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint of South Carolina's coastline on Charleston Harbor, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean formed by the confluence of the Ashley, Cooper, and Wando rivers.
CHARLOTTE own Michigan Central Grand Rapids Division and Chicago & Grand Trunk Railroads 35 miles from Jackson 59 miles from Grand Rapids 26 miles from Battle Creek 112 miles from Detroit 18 miles from Lansing Population 3,500 County Seat of Eaton County Good Agricultural section iine Ash and Walnut Lumber region and Mercantile interests SAMPSON HALL Size of stage 22 x24 Seating capacity 900 Eight sets of scenery Rent one night $15 two nights $25 three nights $30 one week $50 License 82 Will share with good attractions Address AH Sleater Manager or Homer Green Agent Seats sold at W
Chelsea is a city in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States, directly across the Mystic River from the city of Boston. As of the 2020 census, Chelsea had a population of 40,787. With a total area of just 2.46 square miles, Chelsea is the smallest city in Massachusetts in terms of total area. It is the second most densely populated city in Massachusetts, behind Somerville, and is the city with the second-highest percentage of Latino residents in Massachusetts, behind Lawrence.
Chester is a cathedral city and the county town of Cheshire, England. It is located on the River Dee, close to the English–Welsh border.
Sam Clemens arrived in Cincinnati from Keokuk, Iowa in October of 1856. He worked as a printer for T. Wrightson & Co. at 167 Walnut St. He stayed at a boardinghouse at 76 Walnut St. He wrote two letters to the Keokuk Post using the name Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass. On February 16, 1857, he boarded the Paul Jones and left the city for New Orleans, where he became Bixby's cub.
He returned to the city as part of the Twain-Cable Tour, January 1885.
An announcement came in 1855 that a railroad was to cross the Mississippi, South of Lyons, at Little Rock Island. At the same time, the Iowa Land Company (ILC) was formed. The ILC purchased Bartlett's tract on the Iowa shore opposite Little Rock Island. Concurrently, the Chicago, Iowa, & Nebraska (C&IN) Railroad was formed, with the express intent of crossing the Mississippi River at Clinton.
See Bædeker The Rhine and Northern Germany (1868) page 15