MARC Record from Library of Congress

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040 $aDLC$cDLC$edacs
050 00 $aHoudini manuscripts collection 1
100 1 $aWilson, A. M.$q(Albert M.),$d1854-1930.
245 10 $aDr. Wilson of the Sphinx papers,$fcirca 1905-1926$gpredominant 1921-1926.
300 $a4 boxes.
351 $aChiefly correspondence,$borganized alphabetically by the stage name or real name of the writer, or the company name of the advertiser. Box 1, A-E; Box 2, F-L; Box 3, M-Sh; Box 4, Si-Z, Fragments and unidentified, and typesript "Further problems of Prof. Nofzinser's [i.e. Hofzinser's] Everywhere and nowhere [a magic trick].
545 $aAlbert M. Wilson became a doctor and minister after failing as a magician. Later he became a pharmacist. He became editor of the Sphinx, a magic periodical, in 1904.
520 2 $aCorrespondence files, ranging from complaints from subscribers of non-receipt of issues of the Sphinx to news and gossip of the magic world. Includes business correspondence (particularly concerning advertising), a few Wilson family letters, and a few letters concerning prescribing medications and other matters concerned with pharmacy and medical practice. Letters concerning the activities of the Society of American Magicians and its branches and other magicians' groups are also present. Major magicians represented include Howard Thurston, Harry Houdini, Clinton Burgess, F.W. Conradi, and others.
561 $aThe initial group of letters were given to Harry Houdini by Wilson in 1924 (cf. TLS, 15 Jul. 1924.) The early letters were roughly sorted (by Houdini or his librarian) alphabetically.
541 $cBequest:$aEstate of Harry Houdini, April 1927.
600 10 $aWilson, A. M.$q(Albert M.),$d1854-1930$vCorrespondence.
630 00 $aSphinx (Chicago, Ill.)
650 0 $aMagicians$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aHofzinser, Johann Nepomuk,$d1806-1875.
600 10 $aHoudini, Harry,$d1874-1926$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aConradi, F. W.$q(Friedrich Wilhelm),$d1870-1944$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aBurgess, Clinton,$d1880-1932$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aThurston, Howard,$d1869-1936$vCorrespondence.
610 20 $aSociety of American Magicians.
700 1 $aHoudini, Harry,$d1874-1926.
700 1 $aConradi, F. W.$q(Friedrich Wilhelm),$d1870-1944.
700 1 $aBurgess, Clinton,$d1880-1932.
700 1 $aThurston, Howard,$d1869-1936.
710 2 $aHarry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)$5DLC