Mar 22, 2018 - Sale 2470

Sale 2470 - Lot 21

Price Realized: $ 250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
BARNUM, PHINEAS TAYLOR. Autograph Letter Signed, "P.T. Barnum," to Harper's Weekly editor George W. Curtis, requesting that he write an article to counteract the influence of the Democratic party's canvassing in his district. 2 pages, 8vo, ruled paper, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet; faint scattered staining, horizontal folds. Bridgeport, CT, 22 March 1867
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"In . . . this week's Nation is an article on the Conn. election in which the religious element in this district is appealed to to scotch my name. . . . [I]t is said by authority that the Copperheads in this district prepared the article in question . . . . This . . . WH Barnum is a profane man and the 'democratic' party in this district is exhibiting more virulence & personal filth than was ever before seen in a political canvass. . . .
"As this is a very close district we need every good influence to counteract their poison, hence if you can say a word in reply to this last effort of theirs, you will benefit the Repub. party . . . ."