Jerry O'Brien wrote: > > I believe I heard somewhere, perhaps from the Chamberlain, Willi, and > Ouchterloney lawfirm that handled the estate or from Holbrook's agent that he > met with Clara Clemens and asked her about the voice after working on it. I > don't know the sequence of events but as I understand it, she told him it was > the closest thing to her father's voice that she had heard. That is consistent with Caroline Thomas Harnsberger who, in her 1982 _Mark Twain's Clara_ on p. 197, states: "... due to his remarkable memory, his excellent impersonation and skill in make-up, he became almost as famous as Twain himself. "Hal had often expressed his desire to meet Clara Clemens, but at the same he was a little fearful she might not approve of his interpretation, though he made a sparkling, lovable person of her father. ... He was not able to call on her until a year-and-a-half before her death ... . ... Clara wrote that he had taken them 'by storm,' and that she had found him to be all that I had said." larry marshburne [log in to unmask]