I've spent hours and hours researching this subject over the last thirty 
years. I've found quite a few times when Twain was recorded --twice as many 
as are generally known-- and spent many more hours (and money) trying to 
track down those recordings in archives and among descendants of those 
involved in the recordings. There are still loose ends (in the US and 
Europe) and I will probably put it into an article eventually, so, no, I'm 
not inclined to give away my research. Sorry. I do wish you luck with 
whatever that "something" is that you are working on!

Kevin
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From: "Alan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 10:59 PM
Subject: Re: Mark Twain's Voice


> Kevin,
>
> Could you share that information? Was it all autobiographical dictations? 
> W=
> ould love to have that information for something I am working on? Was it 
> ot=
> her than the purported Edison recordings and the dictaphone that Howells 
> re=
> searched for him?
>
> Thanks,
>
> ACR
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Mac Donnell <[log in to unmask]>
> To: TWAIN-L <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:58 pm
> Subject: Re: Mark Twain's Voice
>
>
> Very likely it could. The circumstances of each time Twain's voice was=20
> recorded are known, and I assume you could compare a recording to voice=20
> prints of some of those who recorded Twain's work in their own voices 
> as=20
> early as 1910 to eliminate those fellows as suspects. I have original=20
> recordings of Harry Humphreys reading Twain's works from 1910, 1915 and=20
> 1921, and have two different recordings by William Gillette who 
> imitated=20
> Twain many times in the 1920s and 30s. I know the circumstances of 
> every=20
> occasion when Twain's voice was recorded and what exactly was recorded in=
> =20
> most of those instances. Why do you ask?
>
> Kevin
> @
> Mac Donnell Rare Books
> 9307 Glenlake Drive
> Austin TX 78730
> 512-345-4139
> Member: ABAA, ILAB
> *************************
> You may browse our books at
> www.macdonnellrarebooks.com
>
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> From: "Rod Rawlings" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 3:17 PM
> Subject: Mark Twain's Voice
>
>
>> If someone found an original audio recording, wax cylinder or similar,
>> which was purported to contain the voice of Mark Twain, could it be
>> authenticated?
>>
>> --
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>> Rod Rawlings
>> Writer/Performer
>> 941-713-4446 Direct
>> MarkTwainPerforms.com
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