BARNUM, Phinneas T. Autograph sentiment signed ("P. T. Barnum"), Waldemere, Bridgeport, Connecticut, 30 June 1880. 1 page, 8vo, with engraved profile of Lincoln, closed tear at crease. THE GREAT IMPRESARIO INDULGES IN HIS TRADEMARK BOMBAST ON THE GREATNESS OF LINCOLN: "Abraham Lincoln's cheerfulness and wit were invaluable to him in the trying years of our civil war....Of Mr. Lincoln's inflexible honesty of purpose, there is but one opinion throughout the world. He was a noble whole-souled tender hearted man. He was a model President of this model republic. His fame is justly immortal." A Jacksonian Democrat in the 1830s and '40s, the secession crisis made Barnum a lifelong Lincoln man and Republican.

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BARNUM, Phinneas T. Autograph sentiment signed ("P. T. Barnum"), Waldemere, Bridgeport, Connecticut, 30 June 1880. 1 page, 8vo, with engraved profile of Lincoln, closed tear at crease. THE GREAT IMPRESARIO INDULGES IN HIS TRADEMARK BOMBAST ON THE GREATNESS OF LINCOLN: "Abraham Lincoln's cheerfulness and wit were invaluable to him in the trying years of our civil war....Of Mr. Lincoln's inflexible honesty of purpose, there is but one opinion throughout the world. He was a noble whole-souled tender hearted man. He was a model President of this model republic. His fame is justly immortal." A Jacksonian Democrat in the 1830s and '40s, the secession crisis made Barnum a lifelong Lincoln man and Republican.