This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/11/2024
[BARNUM & BAILEY]. – [BAILEY, James Anthony (1847 – 1906)] Group of correspondence and ephemera. V.p., early 20th century (bulk 1904). A collection of letters (typed and autograph), telegraphs, clippings, and route cards. Many of the letters are addressed to James A. Bailey, with various pieces of correspondence and letters including several from Charles R. Hutchinson (Barnum & Bailey Treasurer); and Ralph G. Spencer. Includes a letter from Bostock Hippodrome, Paris, offering to sell a “sacred white tattooed bull” to Bailey (26 August 1904); telegraphs and carbon letters mainly dated 1904 to Bailey on a range of matters; a group of route cards to Barnum & Bailey and Buffalo Bill’s Wild West; a letter from the artist Arthur William Brown; and a stack of unsigned poetry composed on Barnum & Bailey letterhead, likely by one Harriet Keyt (one poem is signed).