Struggles and Triumphs by P.T. Barnum — Read

Head-Work and Handwork -- Managing Public Opinion -- Creating a Furor -- The New York Herald -- Jenny Lind's Evil Advisers -- John Jay -- Miss Lind's Charities -- A Poor Girl in Boston -- The Nightingale at Iranistan -- Rumor of Her Marriage to P. T. Barnum -- The Story Based on Our "Engagement" -- What Iranistan Did for Me -- Avoiding Crowds -- In Philadelphia and Baltimore -- A Substitute for Miss Lind -- Our Orchestra -- President Fillmore, Clay, Foote, Benton, Scott, Cass, and Webster -- Visit to Mt. Vernon -- Christmas Presents -- New Year's Eve -- We Go to Havana -- Playing Ball -- Frederika Bremer -- A Happy Month in Cuba.

No one can imagine the amount of head-work and handwork which I performed during the first four weeks after Jenny Lind's arrival. Anticipating much of this, I had spent some time in August at the White Mountains to recruit my energies. Of course I had not been idle during the summer. I had put innumerable means and appliances into operation for the furtherance of my object, and little did the public see of the hand that indirectly pulled at their heartstrings, preparatory to a relaxation of their purse-strings; and these means and appliances were continued and enlarged throughout the whole of that triumphal musical campaign.