TLS signed “Houdini,” one page, 5.5 x 8.5, New York Hippodrome letterhead, May 7, 1918. Letter to Edwin Fayette Rice, in part: "Your description of Churchill is so good that I am going to use the letter in toto…Churchill is not the man whose picture I mailed you, because Prof. Vixie also looked like Churchill. You see when a stout man wore Creepers they all looked alike, and if you ever saw, and I know you have scrutinized the old family albums, you seen the old fellows look alike." Affixed to a larger mount and in very good to fine condition, with a few areas of paper loss along the edges, and some adhesive to the border. Houdini debuted his famed 'vanishing elephant' trick at the Hippodrome earlier in the year, making this letterhead especially significant.
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