You’ve seen his face, read his words, and felt his wit echo through generations. But you’ve never heard his voice. For all his fame as the most celebrated speaker of his century, no authentic recording of Mark Twain’s voice has ever been found. Though he experimented with early recording technology in the late 1800s, any cylinders he may have made have vanished. What survives instead is a haunting echo of what might have been. In 1934, at Harvard University, actor and playwright William Gillette

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