Annemann, Theo (Theodore Squires). Archive of Theo Annemann Correspondence and Ephemera. Including 14 TLSs from Annemann to William Henderson, his friend and agent. The letters discuss Arthur Ford and the Houdini code mystery, Annemann’s professional engagements (“We played over 280 shows in the fifteen weeks I was with it…”); his fees (as little as $50 per engagement, and as much as $200); his magazine and his publications (“I always pay off [for contributions to The Jinx] in subscriptions”) and magic-world gossip (“Dell O’Dell is O.K. Rather rough and double entendre throughout but gets quite a lot of work, especially for men”) and personalities (Fulton Oursler, Dunninger, Dr. Rhine, Blackstone, Burt Reese) of the era. One letter includes Annemann’s pencil sketch of Pepper’s Ghost illusion. In many cases, carbons of Henderson’s replies accompany the letters, providing both sides of the conversation. Annemann’s letters typed on various forms of personal and Jinx letterheads, most signed in pencil “Ted.” The final letter in the archive, a carbon, was written to Annemann’s widow, Jeanette, on January 17, 1942, just after her husband’s suicide (“I have just learned of the tragic death of Ted…”). An illustrated table card for Annemann’s appearance at the Empire Room at the Palmer House, Chicago, compliments the archive. An important archive of material on this elusive and creative force in the world of magic and mentalism.