On 7/28/04 11:16 AM, "Jay Dillon" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> The same is almost undoubtedly true for >> Lincoln. > > Sound recording did not exist during Lincoln's lifetime. Not according to that article: "Fadeyev explained that Lincoln (1809-1865) is believed to have made a recording on a phonoautograph, a device invented before Edison's experiments in sound." By the way, when I did look into the supposed sound recordings that were at Yale, I believe that there is still some uncertainty about certain tapes having been mis-titled or labeled. It is possible that some recordings that we do know of were actually Twain, and not the impersonators that they are now attibuted to. Harold K. Bush, Ph.D Saint Louis University