Harry Houdini Authentic Signed 5.5x8.5 Letter Dated May 19th 1918 BAS #AC33273

This Autographed Dated May 19th 1918 5.5x8.5 Letter has been Personally Signed by Harry Houdini. This item is 100% Authentic to include a Certificate of Authenticity (COA) / hologram by Beckett Authentication Services. The authenticity can be verified on Beckett Authentication Services website.


This letter to "William," sent during his famous 19-week engagement at the Hippodrome, during which he made an elephant disappear. In part: "Your Magazine has been handed Official paper of reporting S.A.M. meetings etc, at last Council meeting. It has been stated that your paper is out of existence, and I arose in due wrath and said you were publishing it right along…give me address where it is purchaseable in America…I told Martinka you were looking for his address, also Powers."


Houdini's 19-week run at the Hippodrome began on January 7, 1918, during which time he debuted his famed 'vanishing elephant' trick, making this letterhead significant. The letter also has ideal magic-world content on the subject of the Society of American Magicians (S.A.M.) and a reference to "Martinka," founder of the famous magic company that was eventually owned by Houdini as well.