Who is the beautiful flower in this picture?
We crossed the street to see Our Lady of Victory Basilica
The interior reminded us of Europe.
Ambra waved from her stylish new Fiat - very fun to ride in. She introduced me to the restaurant, Hutch's, where we had a great dinner.
I learned that the original Mark Twain manuscript of Huckleberry Finn resides at the Buffalo Central Public Library.
An entire room is devoted to Mark Twain. He lived in Buffalo for two years with his new bride whose father gave them the the wedding gift of a new home on Delaware Avenue.
During this time, Twain settled on leaving the profession of journalism and becoming a full-time writer.
For many years half of the original manuscript of Huck Finn was lost, but in 1990 it was found in this trunk in Hollywood, California.
One artist's conception of Huck.
The library has copies of Huckleberry Finn in thirty languages, but there may be more. They are always adding to their collection.
Russian edition.
Norman Rockwell's rendition of a scene from the book.
Two pages of the original manuscript are here.
These pages are the size of a small tablet, about 6" x 8". This is page seven in Twain's own hand.
Twain drew the title page as if it were in Huck's own hand.
Visiting this room was an exceptional experience.
I read page 7 and seem to remember Miss Watson - how cool! Reminds me of the British Museum where we saw original manuscripts of Chaucer, Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, and more... it reminds me that we are all just humans. :-) I bet the story of finding the remainder of the manuscript in that trunk in 1990 is a good one!
ReplyDeleteI love seeing Ambra and the basilica (in Buffalo??????) and the pages written in Mark Twain's hand. Can you imagine being a writer without a computer or typewriter? Longhand is how it worked for centuries. Dickens, Shakespeare, Alcott, etc--of course they wrote "the old fashioned way!"
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