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PALLADINO, Eusapia. Three ALSs from Fraudulent Spirit Medium Eusapia Palladino. 1908-09, the first two written in French, and the third, on Universa Spiritualis Fraternitas letterhead to Hereward Carrington and discussing the possibility of conduction seances in the United States after having conducted a “seances tour in Milan, Tourin, Genoa, Nice, and Rome.” She goes on to say, “…to give seances in Europe I have only to make a choice of the invitations I am daily favored [with], and so earn…more than your society offers to me….” Old fold lines and wear, but generally good condition. All three signed in ink by Palladino. Rare. Palladino did make a tour of the United States in 1909 with Carrington serving as her manager. It was on this tour that American illusionist Howard Thurston endorsed the phenomena she created as genuine. But in later sittings her methods for tilting the table and causing other manifestations were exposed by numerous participants, many of them professional magicians.