[Rarebooks] FS: Fine P. T. Barnum Letter regarding Aeronautics, 1873

[Charles Agvent]

BARNUM,  P. T. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS). Bridgeport,  CT:  15
Sept.  1873. A short but interesting aviation-related one-page  letter
on  a larger sheet folded in half (5" x 7-1/2") addressed Dear Sir  to
E.  G.  Judson: "I had already opened a correspondence  with  European
Aeronauts  on the subject, and [?] this day announce in the Bridgeport
Standard  that  I shall if necessary offer $50,000 early next year  in
accomplishing  the feat if it is not done the present autumn."  SIGNED
"P.  T.  Barnum." We do not know what aeronautics feat Barnum  had  in
mind  and if it ever was accomplished at the time; certainly it had to
border  on  the fantastic for its time. Normal creases  from  folding.
Fine                                                          $1500.00

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