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Kellar, Harry (Heinrich Keller). Important Kellar Letter to Houdini. Dated April 22, 1920, and handwritten on one sheet of Kellar’s printed letterhead, he writes on several subjects in great and illuminating detail, including Horace Goldin, “He certainly made enough money in his popular days to make him a very rich man.”; the attitude of entertainers toward money and thrift, “Show people as a rule are very careless of their future, they seem to think the good luck will always stick to them.”; Houdini himself, “You have the energy, the go, the stick-to-itiveness that means success God bless you.”; and Harry Blackstone, then an up-and-coming magician, “I went to his show three times and enjoyed it very much. Blackstone is an artist of a very high order, he is my ideal of a great magician. …he reminds me of John Henry Anderson Jr. as I knew him when I travelled with him when I was in my teens. … All in all it is the best magic show I have seen in many years. He will get there.” Signed “Harry Kellar.