BIBLIOGRAPHY

BOOKS BY BARNUM

Life of P. T. Barnum Written by Himself. First edition, New York, 1855. Revised and published in various editions under this title until 1890.

Struggles and Triumphs, or Forty Years’ Recollections of P. T. Barnum Written by Himself. The same as the Life of P. T. Barnum Written by Himself, with additions and revisions. Published under this title, 1869, 1872, 1882.

How I Made Millions, or The Secret of Success, by P. T. Barnum. 1884. The Life of P. T. Barnum Written by Himself under another title.

Funny Stories Told by P. T. Barnum. London, 1890. A collection of anecdotes from the autobiography.

Dollars and Sense, or How to Get On, by P. T. Barnum. Chicago, 1890. Anecdotes from the autobiography and excerpts from lectures.

Dick Broadhead, by P. T. Barnum. New York, 1888. A juvenile book of adventure. Written by the circus press agent and published under Barnum’s name.

Jack in the Jungle, by P. T. Barnum. New York, 1880. A juvenile story of adventure with wild animals. Also written by the press agent of the circus.

Lion Jack, by P. T. Barnum. New York, 1887. “A Story of Perilous Adventures Among Wild Men and The Capturing of Wild Beasts; Showing How Menageries Are Made.” Also written by the press agent of the circus.

The Wild Beasts, Birds, and Reptiles of the World, The Story of Their Capture, by P. T. Barnum. Chicago, 1888. Written for Barnum by the press agent of the circus, but contains a preface and a last chapter by Barnum.

Barnum’s New Year’s Address. A pamphlet. New York, 1851. Written for Barnum by John Vose, editor of the New York Picayune.

The Humbugs of the World, by P. T. Barnum. New York, 1866.

Why I am a Universalist, by P. T. Barnum. Universalist Tracts, 1895.

The Will of P. T. Barnum. A pamphlet. Bridgeport, Conn., 1891.

Blackwood’s Magazine. London, 1855. Review of the Life of P. T. Barnum Written by Himself.

Christian Review. New York, Vol. 20, 1855. Review of the Life of P. T. Barnum Written by Himself.

Fraser’s Magazine. London, 1855. Review of the Life of P. T. Barnum Written by Himself.

Southern Literary Messenger. Richmond, Va., 1855. Review of the Life of P. T. Barnum Written by Himself.

New York Illustrated News. 1853. The newspaper Barnum owned for one year. Contains references to his temperance activities.

The World. New York newspaper. January 17, 1897. An article on Barnum’s morals.

To Republicans, a circular in opposition to the nomination of P. T. Barnum as a representative of the Fourth District of Connecticut.

BOOKS BY OTHER AUTHORS

Abbott, Lyman. Reminiscences. Contains material on Jenny Lind’s concerts.

Abbott, Lyman. Silhouettes of My Contemporaries. Contains an essay on P. T. Barnum.

Aldrich, Mrs. T. B. Crowding Memories, p. 243.

Arnold, Matthew. Letters of Matthew Arnold. Vol. 2. 1896.

Baker, Sir Samuel W. Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. London, 1890.

Barnum, Mrs. Nancy Fish. The Last Chapter: In Memoriam P. T. Barnum. Privately printed, 1891.

Barnum’s Parnassus. Being Confidential Disclosures of the Prize Committee on the Jenny Lind Song. “With Specimens of the Leading American Poets in the Happiest Effulgence of Their Genius. Respectfully Dedicated to the American Eagle.” New York, 1850. Parodies Written by William Allen Butler, author of “Nothing to Wear.”

Bennett, James Gordon. Memoirs of James Gordon Bennett and His Times by a Journalist. New York, 1855.

Benson and Esher. The Letters of Queen Victoria, edited by Benson and Esher. Vol. 2. Contains material on Jenny Lind in England.

Benton, Joel. Life of Phineas T. Barnum. New York, 1891. This is the Life of P. T. Barnum Written by Himself with no new material, published the year Barnum died by a friend, who changed the first person singular to the third person singular.

Benton, Joel. P. T. Barnum, Showman and Humorist. Century Magazine, August, 1902.

Bleeker, Sylvester. General Tom Thumb’s Three Years’ Tour Around the World, Accompanied by His Wife, Lavinia Warren Stratton, Commodore Nutt, Miss Minnie Warren and Party. New York, 1872.

Bremer, Fredrika. The Homes of the World; Impressions of America. Two volumes. New York, 1858. Jenny Lind material.

Brown, Maria Ward. The Life of Dan Rice. Long Branch, N. J., 1901.

Bunn, Alfred. The Case of Bunn versus Lind, Tried at the Court of Queen’s Bench, Guildhall, City, Before Mr. Justice Erle and a Special Jury, on Tuesday, February 22nd, 1848, Given in Full, from Shorthand Notes Taken at the Time, with a Series of Letters from Plaintiff and Defendant, Produced Thereat, with Others from Both, Now for the First Time Published, to which are added Notes Explanatory and Critical by Alfred Bunn. London, 1848.

Carlyle, Thomas. New Letters of Thomas Carlyle. London, 1904. Contains accounts of Jenny Lind concerts.

Conklin, George. The Ways of the Circus. New York, 1921.

Coup, W. C. Chapters from the Autobiography of W. C. Coup. New York, 187—.

Coup, W. C. Sawdust and Spangles. Chicago, 1901.

Crosby, C. Fred. The Early Days of Barnum’s “Greatest on Earth,” in The Billboard. January 22, 1922.

Dickens, Charles. American Notes.

Emerson, Edward Waldo. The Early Years of the Saturday Club.

Field, Maunsell B. Memories of Many Men and Some Women. New York, 1874.

Ford, James L. Forty-odd Years in the Literary Shop. New York, 1921.

Foster, C. G. Memoir of Jenny Lind. New York, 1850.

Frith, W. P. My Autobiography and Reminiscences. New York, 1888.

George, Henry, Jr. Life of Henry George. New York, 1900.

Ghio, Madame. Biography of Madame Ghio, the Celebrated Swiss Bearded Lady and Her Son, Esau. Pamphlet. Glasgow, 1866.

Haines, George W. Plays, Players, and Playgoers. Reminiscences of Barnum. New York, 1874.

Hawthorne, Julian. Hawthorne and His Wife. Contains reference to Jenny Lind.

Haydon, Benjamin Robert. Autobiography of Benjamin Robert Haydon. Edited by Tom Taylor. London, 1853. Vol. 3.

Holland, H. S., and Rockstro, W. S. Memoir of Madame Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt, Her Early Art-Life and Dramatic Career, 1820–1851. London, 1891.

Hone, Philip. The Diary of Philip Hone, 1828–1851. Edited by Bayard Tuckerman. Two volumes. New York, 1889. Contains material on Jenny Lind in New York.

Hornblow, Arthur. A History of the Theater in America.

Irving, Pierre M. Life and Letters of Washington Irving. New York, 1869. Three volumes.

Jerome, Chauncey. History of the American Clock Business and Life of Chauncey Jerome. Written by Himself. Barnum’s Connection with the Yankee Clock Business. New Haven, Conn., 1860.

Jumbo. A picture folder for children, with verses. London, 1882.

Lamb, Mrs. Martha J. History of the City of New York.

Lamb, Mrs. Martha J. Wall Street in History.

Le Roux and Garnier. Acrobats and Mountebanks. London, 1890.

Lind, Jenny. Press Books of the Jenny Lind Centennial Celebration. Jenny Lind Centennial Committee. 1920.

Longfellow, Samuel. Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with Extracts from His Journals and Correspondence. Vol. 2.

Nutt, Commodore, History of. Pamphlet. New York, 1862.

Paine, Albert Bigelow. Mark Twain, A Biography. Vols. 1 and 3.

Pond, Major J. B. Eccentricities of Genius. New York, 1900.

Rischbieth, H., and Amy Barrington. Dwarfism. Francis Galton Laboratory for National Eugenics. Eugenics Laboratory Memoirs XV. Treasury for Human Inheritance, Parts VII and VIII, Section XV A. London, 1912.

Rosenberg, C. G. Jenny Lind’s Tour Through America and Cuba. New York, 1851.

Sights and Wonders in New York, including a description of the mysteries, miracles, marvels, phenomena, curiosities, and nondescripts contained in that great Congress of Wonders, Barnum’s Museum, also a Memoir of Barnum Himself. New York, 1849.

Smith, Sol. The Theatrical Journey—Work and Anecdotal Recollections. Philadelphia, 1854. Long dedicatory epistle to Barnum.

Smyth, Albert H. Bayard Taylor. Boston, 1896.

Spangled World, A, or Life with the Circus. New York, 1882.

Stoddard, Richard Henry. Recollections Personal and Literary. New York, 1903.

Stowe, Charles Edward. Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Letters from Jenny Lind to Mrs. Stowe.

Taylor, Marie Hansen, and Horace E. Scudder. Life and Letters of Bayard Taylor.

Thackeray. A Collection of Thackeray Letters, 1847–1855. New York, 1887.

Thayer, William Roscoe. Life of John Hay.

Thumb, Thomas, Life and Travels of, in the United States, England, France, and Belgium. Philadelphia, 1849. A book for children.

Trollope, Mrs. Domestic Manners of the Americans. London, 1832.

Upton, George P. Musical Memories. My Recollections of Celebrities of the Half Century 1850–1900. New York, 1908.

Warner, Morris H. The Barnum Budget, or Tent Topics. New York, 1887.

Warren, Lavinia. Autobiographical article by Lavinia Warren in The Sunday Magazine, Sept. 16, 1906.

Willis, N. P. Memoranda for the Life of Jenny Lind. New York, 1850.

Wood, Edward J. Giants and Dwarfs. London, 1868.

NEWSPAPERS AND MISCELLANEOUS MATERIAL

P. T. Barnum’s Advance program notes for the circus seasons of 1876, 1879, 1880, 1882, 1889.

New York Herald, New York Morning Courier and Enquirer, The Evening Post, New York Sun, New York Tribune for various periods from 1841 until 1891.

The Times, London, for 1858, 1882, 1890.

Illustrated London News for 1844, 1845.

Bridgeport Daily Standard, Bridgeport, Conn., for various periods.

Bridgeport Farmer, Bridgeport, Conn., for various periods.

The Spirit of the Times, a New York newspaper, Sept., 1850, and June 14, 1851.

Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch, Sept., 1850, and February, 1852.

Encyclopedia Britannica. Articles on Barnum, Giants and Dwarfs, Benjamin Robert Haydon.