Houdini and Lovecraft According To Letters to Lillian Clark. III.

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[1925 January 22 to Lillian Clark] (4) "In the morning I received telephone calls, & telephoned Houdini about some Hippodrome seats which he had offered me for his current performance-obtaining fine places for Thursday night. ... The next day I spent ... [running errands and planning surprises for Samuel Loveman with] Belknap [who] insisted on planning a gift for Loveman ... & at my suggestion hit upon writing materials, which the poet sadly lacked. In the evening I joined S H at the Hippodrome-a pleasantly immense house-& saw Houdini go through the same tricks he shewed in Providence about 1898. Then to a restaurant for a bite, & home. ..."

{Does this mean HPL saw Houdini as an 8 year old in Providence? Or is this just a put down?}

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[1925 February 2 to Lillian Clark] (5) "C. M. Eddy has just blown in! On business in N.Y. to see Houdini & some editors."

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(4) pp. 105 of H. P. Lovecraft: Letters From New York, ed. Joshi & Schultz, Night Shade Books, San Francisco, 2005.
(5) pp. 108.109 of H. P. Lovecraft: Letters From New York, ed. Joshi & Schultz, Night Shade Books, San Francisco, 2005.