Sold for:
$488
$488
Autographed letter signed ("P. T. B"), to manager William Cameron Coup, 1 page, postmarked Bridgeport, Connecticut, June 28, 1871. Barnum writes to Coup to hold off on their efforts to purchase his animals back from George Wood, who, after touring as a young boy with Barnum, opened his own museum in 1868 called "Wood's Museum and Menagerie." Together with a printed envelope from Wood's museum announcing "P. T. Barnum's Broadway American Museum and Menagerie & Dan Castello's Mammoth Circus," addressed to W. C. Coup in Barnum's hand. Creased from the folds; some chipping to edges of pages; minor brown spotting; else fine.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2010-11-18
