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BARNUM, Phineas Taylor. Autograph Letter Signed (“P.T. Barnum”) to “Cousin Frank” regarding a specimen’s delivery. Bridgeport, Conn: May 21, 1886. On a sheet of Waldemere lined stationery (9 x 5 ¾”), folded and tipped onto the pastedown of a detached cloth cover of Barnum’s Humbugs of the World (London: J.C. Hotten). Barnum writes to “cousin Frank” concerning the delivery of an unnamed “specimen,” in part: “…I have got to find a place in Tuft’s College Museum or else here for it to stand till our Historical Society in Bridgeport owns a building—which may not be in 20 years! Please inform me about what time you will want to send the specimen off so that I can have a place for him in some other city + not have him sent to Bridgeport as at first contemplated.” Signed “Truly yours/P.T. Barnum”. Bottom left square cleanly detached at folds; brown spotting.