Mark Twain and the Lost Manuscript of The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin

Mark Twain and the Lost Manuscript of Huckleberry Finn On November 30, 1835, Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in the townsfolk of Florida, Missouri. He had four siblings, three were older than him and one was younger. When Clemens was four, his family moved to the town of Hannibal, Missouri. Hannibal was a town located on the Mississippi river and would later become the orbit for most of his stories (Twain). In 1847, when Clemens was twelve his father died. Clemens grew up in an educated family (Works of Twain Biographical Sketch). At age twelve he was bound(p) to a printer and at age sixteen he worked under his brother, Orion who was a newspaper publisher in Hannibal. Clemens made an early flak at writing by sending comical travel letters to the Keokuk Saturday Post in Iowa under the pen name Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass. These letters contained by choice inserted errors typical of Clemens later work. When he was twenty-two he fulfilled a childhood dream by becomin g apprenticed to a riverboat pilot named, Horace Bixby. afterwards his apprenticeship, he worked as a river boat pilot for four years. The Civil War stopped riverboat traffic in 1861. Clemens was out of work for several weeks in advance he traveled with his brother Orion to Nevada. Orion had aspirations of becoming Territorial Secretary of Nevada. Clemens became a reporter and later a feature editor for the Virginia metropolis Territorial Enterprise, a Nevada newspaper. During his reporting of the Nevada Constitutional Convention, Samuel Langhorne Clemens officially adopted for himself the pen name Mark Twain (Works of Twain Brief Account).... ... Simon and Schuster, Inc., 1990. Outline Thesis control An original draft of Mark Twains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn exists containing material excluded from the first printing of the book. I. Twains biographical information A. Childhood B. Education C. Professional life 1. Jobs 2. Literary works 3. fiscal co nditions D. Personal life 1. Life style 2. Family life II. Original manuscript of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn A. General information 1. Discovery information 2. How the manuscript was lost B. Legal passage of arms for printing rights C. Difference from the first publishing III. Conclusion