In 1961 Barbara Testa, a Hollywood librarian, inherited six steamer
trunks that had belonged to her grandfather, James Fraser Gluck, a
Buffalo, New York, lawyer who died in 1895. Over the next three decades
she gradually sifted through the contents of the trunks, until one day
in Autumn of 1990 she came upon 665 pages that turned out to be the
original handwritten manuscript of the first half of Mark Twain’s
Huckleberry Finn. The two halves of the great American novel were
finally reunited at the Buffalo and Eerie County Public Library.
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