Letter to Houdini (23 may 1923)
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This letter was written by Arthur Conan Doyle to Houdini on 23 may 1923 from The Ambassador hotel in Los Angeles.
The letter was published by Houdini in his book A Magician Among the Spirits (1924).
Letter
The Ambassador
Los Angeles
May 23, 1923.
My dear Houdini:—
I have had to handle you a little roughly in the Oakland Tribune because they send me a long screed under quotation marks, so it is surely accurate. It is so full of errors that I don't know where to begin. I can't imagine why you say such wild things which have no basis in fact at all. I put the Thompsons down as humbugs. I never heard of my son or brother through the Thomas brothers. They were never exposed. 1 never said that Masked Medium was genuine. I wish you would refer to me before publishing such injurious stuff which I have to utterly contradict. I would always tell you the exact facts as I have done with the Zancigs.
Yours sincerely,
A. Conan Doyle.