The Magic Collection of John Daniel

Nicola (William Mozart Nicol). Lot of Five Typed Letters Signed to John Mulholland. Singapore and Monmouth, Ill., 1939—45. Six pages total, including two from Singapore at the outbreak of World War Two concerning his difficulties touring as a result (“I have decided to postpone the balance of the tour and return home until they can decide who is running this world anyway”); a two-page Jan. 6, 1942 letter in which he writes, “Funniest thing I have read lately is the story of Dillinger in the New Yorker (or is it Dulninger?) I particularly liked the bit where he said he had started at the bottom and ‘worked clear to the top.’ Top of what?”, among other matters; a letter lamenting the recent death of Horace Goldin (“one of my best friends in magic and I hope the magic editors won’t write that he was ‘one of the best’ magicians of our time. He was THE best…”); and one other to Mulholland, plus an unsigned 1913 typed letter and an incomplete autograph letter (one page only, of two or more), both addressed to a certain Clyde.