Flamboyant showman whose exotic exhibits included midget Tom Thumb, Swedish Nightingale Jenny Lind, and the counterfeit Feejee Mermaid. ALS, one page, 5 x 8.25, Bridgeport March 22, 1855. In part: 'You may sell the [?] farm for 450. Take 200 cash and 250 on interest. If not perfectly safe please take a mortgage - but if safe you need not take the mortgage. I wish he would fix a specific time to keep the note, say three four or six months, or some other date and draw the rate accordingly and try to get the deed to me on Saturday as I shall be about first of the week. I cannot accept Ira Trowbridges [?] offer.' In fine condition, with scattered light creasing, two creases through two letters of the signature. RRAuction COA.
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