Letter from the Librarian of Congress in 1955 to our parents accompanying the "Deed of Gift".

How the Library of Congress acknowledged gifts in 1955

Some 17,000 items of rare books and ephemera were added by Hanna and John McManus along with Chesley and Morris Young to the material Harry Houdini had donated from his personal library to create one of the most inclusive libraries on Magic in the world.

Walter Gibson's anagrammatic signature

Observe how he combined the "W" and "M" of Walter and Maxwell and the "G" of both Gibson and Grant with his pen name of "Maxwell Grant" when writing The Shadow novels.