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From: Donal McEvoy <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, 7 March 2017, 23:46
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Test Any plans for a 're-enactment'?
I hear reports of Mark Twain's death are no longer greatly exaggerated. This
post is a test, apologies interrupting this thread to make it.
D
From: "epostboxx@xxxxxxxx" <epostboxx@xxxxxxxx>
To: Lit-Ideas <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, 7 March 2017, 14:46
Subject: [lit-ideas] Any plans for a 're-enactment'?
I’m currently listening my way through many of the works of Samuel L. Clemens
(Mark Twain), and this afternoon happened to notice an upcoming
sesquicentennial anniversary.
150 years ago (as of June of this year) Clemens set out on his 'Excursion To
The Holy Land, Egypt, The Crimea, Greece, And Intermediate Points Of Interest’:
"What was there lacking about that program to make it perfectly irresistible?
Nothing that any finite mind could discover. Paris, England, Scotland,
Switzerland, Italy—Garibaldi! The Grecian Archipelago! Vesuvius!
Constantinople! Smyrna! The Holy Land! Egypt and "our friends the Bermudians"!
People in Europe desiring to join the excursion—contagious sickness to be
avoided—boating at the expense of the ship—physician on board—the circuit of
the globe to be made if the passengers unanimously desired it—the company to be
rigidly selected by a pitiless "Committee on Applications"—the vessel to be as
rigidly selected by as pitiless a "Committee on Selecting Steamer." Human
nature could not withstand these bewildering temptations. I hurried to the
treasurer's office and deposited my ten percent. I rejoiced to know that a few
vacant staterooms were still left. I did avoid a critical personal examination
into my character by that bowelless committee, but I referred to all the people
of high standing I could think of in the community who would be least likely to
know anything about me."
I am wondering if any list members (or colleagues or associates thereof) have
knowledge of any planned sesquicentennial celebration of this excursion;
particularly any plans for a ‘re-enactment’ of the voyage.
I am also leaving as an exercise for the reader the choosing of an appropriate
title for any subsequent publication of the proceedings of such an excursion,
and would appreciate reading on this list the results of such mental gymnastics.
Clemens title (of which 'Excursion To The Holy Land …’ is the subtext) was, of
course, INNOCENTS ABROAD.
For the edification and (it is hoped) delight of list members I am including in
a postscript the text of the program for the excursion as published by Clemens.
The text of the book in its entirety can be found at the following Project
Gutenberg address:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/5688/5688-h/5688-h.htm
and can be listened to here:
https://librivox.org/the-innocents-abroad-by-mark-twain/
Chris Bruce,
embarking in accompaniment
of Clemens in his armchair, in
Kiel, Germany
P.S. EXCURSION TO THE HOLY LAND, EGYPT, THE CRIMEA, GREECE, AND INTERMEDIATE
POINTS OF INTEREST.
The undersigned will make an excursion as above during the coming season, and
begs to submit to you the following programme:
A first-class steamer, to be under his own command, and capable of
accommodating at least one hundred and fifty cabin passengers, will be
selected, in which will be taken a select company, numbering not more than
three-fourths of the ship's capacity. There is good reason to believe that this
company can be easily made up in this immediate vicinity, of mutual friends and
acquaintances.
The steamer will be provided with every necessary comfort, including library
and musical instruments.
An experienced physician will be on board.
Leaving New York about June 1st, a middle and pleasant route will be taken
across the Atlantic, and passing through the group of Azores, St. Michael will
be reached in about ten days. A day or two will be spent here, enjoying the
fruit and wild scenery of these islands, and the voyage continued, and
Gibraltar reached in three or four days.
A day or two will be spent here in looking over the wonderful subterraneous
fortifications, permission to visit these galleries being readily obtained.
From Gibraltar, running along the coasts of Spain and France, Marseilles will
be reached in three days. Here ample time will be given not only to look over
the city, which was founded six hundred years before the Christian era, and its
artificial port, the finest of the kind in the Mediterranean, but to visit
Paris during the Great Exhibition; and the beautiful city of Lyons, lying
intermediate, from the heights of which, on a clear day, Mont Blanc and the
Alps can be distinctly seen. Passengers who may wish to extend the time at
Paris can do so, and, passing down through Switzerland, rejoin the steamer at
Genoa.
From Marseilles to Genoa is a run of one night. The excursionists will have an
opportunity to look over this, the "magnificent city of palaces," and visit the
birthplace of Columbus, twelve miles off, over a beautiful road built by
Napoleon I. From this point, excursions may be made to Milan, Lakes Como and
Maggiore, or to Milan, Verona (famous for its extraordinary fortifications),
Padua, and Venice. Or, if passengers desire to visit Parma (famous for
Correggio's frescoes) and Bologna, they can by rail go on to Florence, and
rejoin the steamer at Leghorn, thus spending about three weeks amid the cities
most famous for art in Italy.
From Genoa the run to Leghorn will be made along the coast in one night, and
time appropriated to this point in which to visit Florence, its palaces and
galleries; Pisa, its cathedral and "Leaning Tower," and Lucca and its baths,
and Roman amphitheater; Florence, the most remote, being distant by rail about
sixty miles.
From Leghorn to Naples (calling at Civita Vecchia to land any who may prefer to
go to Rome from that point), the distance will be made in about thirty-six
hours; the route will lay along the coast of Italy, close by Caprera, Elba, and
Corsica. Arrangements have been made to take on board at Leghorn a pilot for
Caprera, and, if practicable, a call will be made there to visit the home of
Garibaldi.
Rome [by rail], Herculaneum, Pompeii, Vesuvius, Vergil's tomb, and possibly the
ruins of Paestum can be visited, as well as the beautiful surroundings of
Naples and its charming bay.
The next point of interest will be Palermo, the most beautiful city of Sicily,
which will be reached in one night from Naples. A day will be spent here, and
leaving in the evening, the course will be taken towards Athens.
Skirting along the north coast of Sicily, passing through the group of Aeolian
Isles, in sight of Stromboli and Vulcania, both active volcanoes, through the
Straits of Messina, with "Scylla" on the one hand and "Charybdis" on the other,
along the east coast of Sicily, and in sight of Mount Etna, along the south
coast of Italy, the west and south coast of Greece, in sight of ancient Crete,
up Athens Gulf, and into the Piraeus, Athens will be reached in two and a half
or three days. After tarrying here awhile, the Bay of Salamis will be crossed,
and a day given to Corinth, whence the voyage will be continued to
Constantinople, passing on the way through the Grecian Archipelago, the
Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmora, and the mouth of the Golden Horn, and arriving
in about forty-eight hours from Athens.
After leaving Constantinople, the way will be taken out through the beautiful
Bosphorus, across the Black Sea to Sebastopol and Balaklava, a run of about
twenty-four hours. Here it is proposed to remain two days, visiting the
harbors, fortifications, and battlefields of the Crimea; thence back through
the Bosphorus, touching at Constantinople to take in any who may have preferred
to remain there; down through the Sea of Marmora and the Dardanelles, along the
coasts of ancient Troy and Lydia in Asia, to Smyrna, which will be reached in
two or two and a half days from Constantinople. A sufficient stay will be made
here to give opportunity of visiting Ephesus, fifty miles distant by rail.
From Smyrna towards the Holy Land the course will lay through the Grecian
Archipelago, close by the Isle of Patmos, along the coast of Asia, ancient
Pamphylia, and the Isle of Cyprus. Beirut will be reached in three days. At
Beirut time will be given to visit Damascus; after which the steamer will
proceed to Joppa.
From Joppa, Jerusalem, the River Jordan, the Sea of Tiberias, Nazareth,
Bethany, Bethlehem, and other points of interest in the Holy Land can be
visited, and here those who may have preferred to make the journey from Beirut
through the country, passing through Damascus, Galilee, Capernaum, Samaria, and
by the River Jordan and Sea of Tiberias, can rejoin the steamer.
Leaving Joppa, the next point of interest to visit will be Alexandria, which
will be reached in twenty-four hours. The ruins of Caesar's Palace, Pompey's
Pillar, Cleopatra's Needle, the Catacombs, and ruins of ancient Alexandria will
be found worth the visit. The journey to Cairo, one hundred and thirty miles by
rail, can be made in a few hours, and from which can be visited the site of
ancient Memphis, Joseph's Granaries, and the Pyramids.
From Alexandria the route will be taken homeward, calling at Malta, Cagliari
(in Sardinia), and Palma (in Majorca), all magnificent harbors, with charming
scenery, and abounding in fruits.
A day or two will be spent at each place, and leaving Parma in the evening,
Valencia in Spain will be reached the next morning. A few days will be spent in
this, the finest city of Spain.
From Valencia, the homeward course will be continued, skirting along the coast
of Spain. Alicant, Carthagena, Palos, and Malaga will be passed but a mile or
two distant, and Gibraltar reached in about twenty-four hours.
A stay of one day will be made here, and the voyage continued to Madeira, which
will be reached in about three days. Captain Marryatt writes: "I do not know a
spot on the globe which so much astonishes and delights upon first arrival as
Madeira." A stay of one or two days will be made here, which, if time permits,
may be extended, and passing on through the islands, and probably in sight of
the Peak of Teneriffe, a southern track will be taken, and the Atlantic crossed
within the latitudes of the northeast trade winds, where mild and pleasant
weather, and a smooth sea, can always be expected.
A call will be made at Bermuda, which lies directly in this route homeward, and
will be reached in about ten days from Madeira, and after spending a short time
with our friends the Bermudians, the final departure will be made for home,
which will be reached in about three days.
Already, applications have been received from parties in Europe wishing to join
the Excursion there.
The ship will at all times be a home, where the excursionists, if sick, will be
surrounded by kind friends, and have all possible comfort and sympathy.
Should contagious sickness exist in any of the ports named in the program, such
ports will be passed, and others of interest substituted.
The price of passage is fixed at $1,250, currency, for each adult passenger.
Choice of rooms and of seats at the tables apportioned in the order in which
passages are engaged; and no passage considered engaged until ten percent of
the passage money is deposited with the treasurer.
Passengers can remain on board of the steamer, at all ports, if they desire,
without additional expense, and all boating at the expense of the ship.
All passages must be paid for when taken, in order that the most perfect
arrangements be made for starting at the appointed time.
Applications for passage must be approved by the committee before tickets are
issued, and can be made to the undersigned.
Articles of interest or curiosity, procured by the passengers during the
voyage, may be brought home in the steamer free of charge.
Five dollars per day, in gold, it is believed, will be a fair calculation to
make for all traveling expenses onshore and at the various points where
passengers may wish to leave the steamer for days at a time.
The trip can be extended, and the route changed, by unanimous vote of the
passengers.
CHAS. C. DUNCAN, 117 WALL STREET, NEW YORK
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