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

coiffure both and the Lost Manuscript of Huckleberry Finn On November 30, 1835, Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in the town of Florida, Missouri. He had quadruplet siblings, three were old 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 setting 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 apprenticed to a correspondent and at age sixteen he plyed under his brother, huntsman who was a newspaper publisher in Hannibal. Clemens made an early attempt at writing by sending comical travel letters to the Keokuk Saturday nominate 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 becoming apprenticed to a riverboat pilot film named, Horace Bixby. After 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 before 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 City Territorial Enterprise, a Nevada newspaper. During his reporting of the Nevada organic 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 Statement An original draft of Mark Twains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn exists containing material excluded from the first opinion of the book. I. Twains biographical knowledge A. Childhood B. development C. Professional heart 1. Jobs 2. Literary works 3. Financial conditions 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 battle for printing rights C. Difference from the first publishing III. Conclusion