This is not a Houdini letter per se unless you consider that there were at least five Houdinis. There was Harry, of course, but then there was Bessie and there were the other Bros. Houdini: Theo (Dash), J. H. (Jacob Hyman) and Joseph (later known as Joe Hayman). Here is a letter from Dash Hardeen to Jacob Hyman, who was by that time a Beverly Hills eye, ear, nose and throat physician. Much of the letter is about Bessie and the "messages" she was beginning to receive from Houdini via medium Arthur Ford

For more about Bessie, Arthur Ford, the freezing a man in a block of ice illusion, Hardeen's stomach and Fulgora and Joe, click here. I'll also discuss this letter a bit.

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