[Scrapbook of occasional reading]
Contributors: Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1845
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: American fiction
Other titles: Scrap book : romances : A.M. Smith : 1891
Description: Scrapbook compiled of newspaper clippings of occasional reading, chiefly serial fiction.  Most do not give a byline; bylines that do appear are Caroline Lee Hentz, S. Baring-Gould, William Henry Peck, Rebecca Forbes, Mary Kyle Dallas, et al.  Only a few are dated in ms.
Notes: Bequest: Estate of Harry Houdini, April 1927.

Compiler was A.M. Smith.  Two A.M. Smiths are identified in the 1880 U.S. Census in what is now New York city:  A. Morton Smith, a grain broker, b. ca. 1835; and A.M. Smith, a toy manufacturer, b. ca. 1825.