The article I found was on Mark Twain’s three months visit to Jönköping in 1899.
On the 10th of July Mark Twain, his wife and his daughter Jane arrived in Jonkoping to visit Jonas Henrik Kellgren’s health institute (Institutet för Manuel Sjukbehandling) to get treatment for his rheumatism. The institute main building, called “Gula Sanna”, is ca 150 yrs old and still stands. Kellgren methods towards health was massage and brusque physiotherapy.
- Gula Sanna
In a letter to his daughter he pictures a gloomy vision of his summer; it seems to have been a boring, dull and somewhat monotonous existence with Kellgrens patients, whom he calls “the damned”.
Thou gloomy he seems to have appreciated the sunsets, in an other letter he wrote; I’ve seen about sixty sunsets here and at least forty of these surpasses every other I’ve seen. America, the tropics – they have no idea of what a sunset should be like… *
Most of the time spent in Jonkoping seems to have been bound to the institute, though he made a trip to Visingsö with the ship “Per Brahe” that a few years later went down in a storm, bringing the demise to the Swedish painter John Bauer (one of my personal favorites).
Painting by John Bauer called Tuvstarr, this image is originally from Malmo museum.
While in Jonkoping Mark Twain wrote one novel “my boyhood dream” and one poem “To above old people”. So now I’ll have to look these up, if for nothing else a small distraction.
Magnus Reuterdahl
*) This is not an exact quote; I’ve seen a couple of different version, sometimes with a few more countries and sometimes with a more metaphoric addition.
Jönköpings hembygdsförening Gudmundsgillet (link in Swedish)
June 15th, 2009 at 5:27 am
Hej! Jag heter Alejandra och jag är mexikanska, ursäkta, jag kan inte svenska sa bra
Jag bodde i Stockholm nio månader, och jag tror att Sverige är en underbart land. Men jag tror att jag måste lära mig mer och skriva bättre 
Din jobb är intressant!
Hoppas du kan svara mig, det ska blir kul
Alejandra Sánchez
June 15th, 2009 at 8:03 am
Hej Alejandra,
kul att du hittat hit. Svenskan verkar fungerar utmärkt. Jobbet som arkeolog är mycket kul och intressant men betyder mycket resor. Vad gjorde du i Stockholm?
Magnus Reuterdahl
(If you want me to answer you back in English I’ll do that but I got the impression that you wanted it in Swedish)
December 31st, 2009 at 10:48 am
men se där! Har bott 100-200 meter ifrån den byggnaden hela mitt liv utan att veta om detta.
December 31st, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Alltid lär man sig något nytt ;D
Gott nytt år
Magnus