BARNUM PHINEAS TAYLOR Autograph Letter Signed

Sale 1912 - Lot 37

Price Realized: $ 460

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750

BARNUM, PHINEAS TAYLOR. Autograph Letter Signed, "P. T. Barnum," to New York Sun writer G. Patton, asking him to show him an article before publishing it so that he can modify some of his statements. 2 pages, folded 8vo sheet, personal stationery; horizontal crease, pinhole.<\t>Bridgeport, 30 August 1880

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"I revealed to you so much today that I did not think of telling the public, and which I will not tell anybody else, that I feel it absolutely necessary for me to see your Ms. before it goes into type. There are some things told you today that unless qualified or modified a little might do me very great financial injury, a thing which I know my friends Dana & England would not desire . . . Meanwhile I will be mum to all the other members of the 'Press Gang.'"<