I think you can hear that recording here: http://www.salwenpr.com/files/marktwainaudio1.wav The intro would indicate that it was not Mark Twain. Carl > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Twain Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Harold > Bush > Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 7:31 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Twain Recording? > > Hi Sue, those Edison recording were destroyed in a fire, and as far as is > known, no verified recordings of MT have survived. > > I would add that Yale does have one recording, believed to be William > Gillette (I think), who was an impersonator who know Twain personally and > was supposedly quite accurate in his mimicry. There must be others of him, > which I would liken to someone like Rich Little doing Johnny Carson. i.e. > pretty accurate. It is plausible that it is not Gillette, and in fact MT himself; I > remember hearing that from someone in the Beinecke at Yale many years > back. They just had no way of knowing. My guess = it is also plausible that > somehwere out there, somehow, a recording of MT may exist, like that old > manuscript of Huck Finn.... > > I also vaguely recall having a discussion on this LIST long ago, and I'd love to > hear other views. > > --Hal B. > > > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Harris, Susan Kumin <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > Today a colleague asked me if there were any extant recordings of > > Twain's v= oice, and I realized that I have a memory of someone > > talking about an Ediso= n recording--but also that it may have been > > destroyed. Can someone set me = straight on this? > > > > > > > > Thank you! --susan harris > > > -- > Harold K. Bush, Ph.D > Professor of English > Saint Louis University > St. Louis, MO 63108 > 314-977-3616 (w); 314-771-6795 (h) > <www.slu.edu/x23809.xml>