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P.T. Barnum ALS to Bailey 1889

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P.T. Barnum ALS to Bailey 1889
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Excellent P.T. Barnum autograph letter signed to his business partner in “Barnum & Bailey Circus”, James A. Bailey. Single page letter datelined Franklin County, New York on 27 August 1889 reads, ''…The London papers don't seem so ready to notice us as Provincial papers - probably fearing to give us too much free advertising. But that meeting of the Metropolitan Railway in London gets us noticed by London Times-Telegraph and all the leading London papers. And they evidently generally think we shall draw crowds - which I do not doubt. When do you expect to sail and at what date do you think it best for me to go? I hope you have bargained with Courier Company for prices of my books of 2 qualities if you want them - though I don't think we can sell many there - especially of high price binding and paper. As I wrote you yesterday, I shall leave here for home next week…and arrive there 5th if no accident prevents…P.T. Barnum.'' On the verso, in James A. Bailey's hand are his pencil notes: ''Notify Barnum when sail / Show sails Oct. 18 / 2 kind Barnums Life / Can't show Phila too late / bills boxed for London / agents gone.'' Letter on ''Paul Smith's / Adirondack Mountains / Franklin Co. N.Y.'' stationery measures 6'' x 9.5''. Also accompanied by an original double-sided yellow advertising streamer, ca. 1881, announcing ''P.T. Barnum's Greatest Show on Earth, and the Great London Circus, Sanger's Royal British Menagerie'' with several vignette illustrations. Streamer fragile with minor tears but otherwise intact. Letter in near fine condition, save for light wear at the bottom.
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