Hobart, Oklahoma
November 12, 1937

Dear Annemann;

Here’s a thimble production act that is simple, easy, and perfectly deceptive.

Stack about 15 thimbles in the palm of your left hand, and thumb palm one in the right hand.

Pick up a drinking glass and show it empty, holding it with the left hand.

The 15 thimbles will be between your left palm and the glass. The glass is a straight sided one, and a strip of flesh colored tissue is pasted the length of the back side. This keeps the thimbles from showing through.

The stack may be secured from a holder under coat edge, or picked up from the table when the glass is obtained. Colored thimbles look best, but you can’t use so many.

Reach into the air and produce the thimble thumb palmed in right hand on tip of index finger. With the thumb and third finger of right hand, lift the thimble from index finger and show to audience. Drop thimble into the glass, and as you do, let the index finger go behind the glass and pick up the top thimble of the stack, thumb palming it as hand leaves glass.

Show hand empty, and produce another thimble as at first. The procedure is repeated until all of the stack have been made to appear. The move behind this effect is natural, and allows of the performer moving about, the left hand concealing the stack very well. Each time the thimble produced is dropped into glass, it is done quite unconcernedly, the performer looking around above him for another. Therefore the feat of getting the next one can be done deliberately without the necessity of trying to do it fast, with the chance of missing or fumbling.

At the finish, the thimble may be poured into a dish or tin, and the glass left lying on its side on table with the mouth towards audience.

Sincerely;