Occult
Contributors: Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1857
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
Subjects: Miscellanea; Notebooks, sketchbooks; Literature; Occultism; Biography
Description: Scrapbook (made from a repurposed ms. account book) of newspaper clippings, chiefly of short biographies, poems, jokes, short stories and anecdotes, and occasional reading. There are a few articles on ghost stories, spiritualism, and the occult.
Notes: Cover title from fragment of ms. label.

Ms. indexes mounted on p. [2-3] of cover.

Bequest: Estate of Harry Houdini, April 1927.

Compiler was a commission clerk in New York, N. Y.; his initials and part of his address are visible on the last few pages and on p. [3] of cover.