[Scrapbook on hypnotism, Walford Bodie's stage cures, spiritualism, magic tricks, juggling, and Houdini's escapes]

Scrapbook assembled probably by Ellis Stanyon, possibly with additions by Harry Houdini. Newspaper and magazine clippings on hypnotism and Walford Bodie's stage cures, spiritualism, card sharping, magic tricks, juggling, and Houdini's escapes. Attribution to Stanyon made on the basis of notations of sources in ms. Houdini may have added some content.