[Rarebooks] FS: P.T. Barnum AUTOGRAPH LETTER proposing Aeronautics Feat

Charles Agvent chagvent at ptd.net
Mon Jan 3 09:03:39 EST 2011


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, as it was connected to Barnum, 
it had to border on the fantastic for its era. Normal creases from 
folding. Fine.         $1,500.00

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