Somewhere in the archives of this listserv is my previous answer to this very question, detailing some of the times Twain's voice was recorded (by accident by an opera star, at a dinner, his dictations for THE AMERICAN CLAIMANT, etc). It is reported that some survived but were destroyed in WW2 in Europe. Not sure which ones those might have been. But none are known to have survived, and you can assume that I've looked in all the right places. The actor whose imitation of Twain that Hal Holbrook refers to is William Gillette's recording of a portion of the jumping frog story that he performed in the 1920s. He gave performances imitating Twain as late as 1935. His first performance was during Twain's lifetime, and witnessed by Twain, who pronounced it excellent. Clara Clemens likewise heard Holbrook imitate her father and said he was a dead ringer, so... we don't have the old man himself, but we do have something pretty close. Kevin Mac Donnell Austin TX