Hi Allen,
A genuine wax cylinder of Harriet Beecher Stowe seems unlikely as she was
suffering from increasingly severe dementia from around 1888. I suppose she
could have been recorded on tin foil but would that have survived?
Best Wishes
Mike Quinn
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 9:43 AM, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi,
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> I vaguely recall seeing/hearing some excerpt on an old LP of the
> "voice" of Harriet Beecher Stowe. She died in 1896.
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> I doubt very much that it was genuine, but even with the Internet, I
> can't seem to locate where it was (the sound track). The Stowe Museum in
> Hartford, CT knows nothing about it.
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> Thanks.
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> Allen K.
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