Harry Houdini Signed 5.5x8.25 2 Page Letter Dated July 7, 1926 BAS #AE13542
This Autographed & Personal Letterhead Dated July 7, 1926 5.5x8.25 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.
Reads in full: "As you may know I resigned from the American Society of Psychical Research when Mr. J. Malcolm Bird was placed at its head, not wishing to be in company with a man of such low integrity and calibre.
Note that my friend Mr. Harry Price of London in a lecture before the Magicians' Club asked the magicians to explain how things performed by a number of mediums were accomplished and all he did was to flash lantern slides on the wall. What a silly way for any investigator to do things. Am given to understand that he is lecturing on the authenticity of Mrs. Crandon's mediumship. She is being exposed right along and fortunately I now have the Harvard College back of me, meaning that the Professors and the majority of her investigators brand her phenomena as accomplished by dexterity. I call it by stronger names, because I have had the honor of being the first one to detect her.
Who is Professor Hans Driesch of University of Leipsig and now President of the Society of Psychical Research. I have the Journal here of April 26, but thought you may have some information not contained there. Believe he is coming to America. If so, may possibly meet him, unless his mind has been poisoned by the talk of fraudulent mediums and pseudo scientists. / Am gathering an enormous amount of information and busily engaged in trying to index it. / By the way, I have two men in this country who are superb in their work. One has greatly improved telepathy (when I say this, I mean I know his method) and the other is a regurgitator. We have a water regurgitator in America now who drinks gallons of water regurgitating it at will. He also swallows three different colored handkerchiefs and vomits any particular color you want.
Any information you wish and I can furnish, is yours without a question. / Sincerely hope that the Slade confession has arrived in your possession. / Believe I told you when I am on the road, I work from 7 A.M. until two the next morning, rarely taking a nap excepting fifteen to twenty minutes before I appear before my audience.
Have just written a small article for the Encyclopedia Britannica on Magic and am trying to whip together an article on witchcraft. / Would be obliged to you for any exposés and information on Spiritualism in Europe."
Reads in full: "As you may know I resigned from the American Society of Psychical Research when Mr. J. Malcolm Bird was placed at its head, not wishing to be in company with a man of such low integrity and calibre.
Note that my friend Mr. Harry Price of London in a lecture before the Magicians' Club asked the magicians to explain how things performed by a number of mediums were accomplished and all he did was to flash lantern slides on the wall. What a silly way for any investigator to do things. Am given to understand that he is lecturing on the authenticity of Mrs. Crandon's mediumship. She is being exposed right along and fortunately I now have the Harvard College back of me, meaning that the Professors and the majority of her investigators brand her phenomena as accomplished by dexterity. I call it by stronger names, because I have had the honor of being the first one to detect her.
Who is Professor Hans Driesch of University of Leipsig and now President of the Society of Psychical Research. I have the Journal here of April 26, but thought you may have some information not contained there. Believe he is coming to America. If so, may possibly meet him, unless his mind has been poisoned by the talk of fraudulent mediums and pseudo scientists. / Am gathering an enormous amount of information and busily engaged in trying to index it. / By the way, I have two men in this country who are superb in their work. One has greatly improved telepathy (when I say this, I mean I know his method) and the other is a regurgitator. We have a water regurgitator in America now who drinks gallons of water regurgitating it at will. He also swallows three different colored handkerchiefs and vomits any particular color you want.
Any information you wish and I can furnish, is yours without a question. / Sincerely hope that the Slade confession has arrived in your possession. / Believe I told you when I am on the road, I work from 7 A.M. until two the next morning, rarely taking a nap excepting fifteen to twenty minutes before I appear before my audience.
Have just written a small article for the Encyclopedia Britannica on Magic and am trying to whip together an article on witchcraft. / Would be obliged to you for any exposés and information on Spiritualism in Europe."
Harry Houdini Signed 5.5x8.25 2 Page Letter Dated July 7, 1926 BAS #AE13542
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