HOFFMANN, Professor (Angelo Lewis, 1839 ? 1919). Instructional ALS from Hoffmann to a Student. Dated June 15, 1881, the famed author of Modern Magic and many other conjuring classics writes in part about sleight-of-hand, stating, ??you hold wand in right hand, orange palmed in same hand, back of hand (of course) toward spectators. You pass point of want gently up side of cone & the orange is now supposed to be ? on point of wand." He goes on to state that, ?This is how Herrmann use to work it?." On one folding 8vo sheet of printed stationery for a London Window Blind manufacturing concern, with old notes to verso. SIGNED in ink, ?Angelo J. Lewis."