his marriage, he moved to Hartford, Connecticut and built an extravagant house (Works of Twain: Biographical Sketch). Clemens had three daughters Susie, Clara, and Jean. Clara moved to Europe with her husband around 1894. Jean had epilepsy and died of a heart attack in January of 1910. Twain’s life was filled with much sorrow and depression, this is probably the reason that some Twain’s last writings were so savage and bitter that they have just recently been published. On April 21, 1910, just four months after his daughter’s death, Twain died of a heart attack (Works of Twain: Biographical Sketch). In 1990, the original draft of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was found in a trunk in the attic of James Gluck’s house in Hollywood, California by his two granddaughters. Mark Twain sent the second half of the manuscript to Gluck, then a librarian in Buffalo, New York, to put in his library’s collection. Apparently, Twain sent the first half later on, but it became misplaced by Gluck to be found nearly a century after if was lost. The entire manuscript of Huckleberry Finn, both the first and second halves, is now in the Erie Country Public Library’s collection (“The Twain Shall Meet”). The manuscript, which represented the first half of a handwritten first version, caused a sensation around the world, and scholars have called it a stupendous literary find (Getlin, 1). The second half of the manuscript is thought to have fewer significant changes than the recently discovered first half. Changes in the first half include adjustment in character’s dialect, small word changes, and complete passages that were left out of the first printing of the book (“The Twain Shall Meet”). One section left out of the first printing was the “raftman’s passage” which also appears in Twain’s Life on the Mississippi. Other small changes, such as Jim belonging to the wido...
