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TLS signed “Houdini,” one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, January 6, 1921. Letter to Robert Gould Shaw of the Harvard College Library. In full: “Confirming our telephone conversation, shall be pleased to be in Boston, January 19th, 1921. May I ask you whether the Odd Volumes Club would permit me to invite Mr. Douglas Flattery of the Orpheum, Dr. J. E. Waitts, dental demonstrator at Harvard and Mr. Quincy Kilby of Brookline, Mass.?” Houdini also added a brief handwritten postscript, “Index to records arrived this eve.” Intersecting folds with small repaired edge separations (one vertical fold passing through second letter of his name), and an unobtrusive professionally repaired tear extending from the right edge through the word “conversation,” otherwise fine condition. Pre-certified PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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