Mark Twain stories, 150 years old, uncovered by Berkeley scholars

• Cache shows Twain working at a San Francisco newspaper as a young man
  
• Berkeley archivists describe stash ‘like opening up a big box of candy’

Scholars at the University of California, Berkeley have uncovered and authenticated a cache of stories written by Mark Twain when he was a 29-year-old newspaperman in San Francisco. Many of the stories are 150 years old.

Twain wrote some of the letters and stories at the San Francisco Chronicle when it was called the San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle, where his job included writing a 2,000-word dispatch every day and sending it off by stagecoach for publication in the Territorial Enterprise newspaper in Virginia City, Nevada.

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