Mark Twain’s Cache Discovered Automatic translate

BERKLEY. In the library of the University of California at Berkeley, one of the teachers discovered a cache of previously unknown letters from the American writer Mark Twain. More than a hundred manuscripts, which are both ordinary letters to friends and relatives, and journalistic columns written between 1865 and 1866 in a peculiar style and handwriting, as well as on the signatures on some of them, indicate that they were written precisely Mark Twain.

According to the content of the materials, they date back to that period of Twain’s life when he lived in San Francisco and wrote notes for local newspapers and magazines, sending them by mail. In one of the letters to his brother, the author complains about a lack of livelihoods and says that his death will be able to solve all his problems. “If I don’t get rid of debts for three months, then a bullet or poison will help me finish everything,” Twain writes. In another of the texts found, the author compares the chief of the city police with a dog biting his tail, and he accuses officials of fraud.

“This is a special period in his life. He is completely free, not burdened by marriage and something else, may or may not express his own opinion. These are wonderful things to read, it is surprising that they were preserved, ”said Bob Hurst, who studies the documents found.

Tom Sawyer’s “father” moved to San Francisco in 1864 at the age of 29. His work as a freelance journalist in newspapers helped him achieve his first literary fame - his humorous story, The Famous Galloping Frog from Calaveras, was reprinted in many newspapers in the country. In 1866, he went to the Hawaiian Islands, from where he brought a lot of interesting travel notes, which aroused great interest among readers. It was a decisive trip in his fate, because after it Twain began to offer lectures and paid trips to other countries to work on new stories.

For historians studying Mark Twain’s work, his hiding place with letters is a unique find that allows him to get to know him better, to understand what he thought and dreamed at the beginning of his famous literary path.

Svetlana Korableva © Gallerix.ru