Struggles and Triumphs by P.T. Barnum — Read

Alfred Bunn, of Drury Lane Theater -- Amusing Interview -- Mr. Levy, of the London Daily Telegraph -- Vacations at Home -- My Presidency of the Fairfield County Agricultural Society -- Exhibiting a Pickpocket -- Philosophy of Humbug -- A Chopfallen Ticket-Seller -- A Prompt Paymaster -- Barnum in Boston -- A Deluded Hack Driver -- Phillips's Fire Annihilator -- Honorable Elisha Whittlesey -- Trial of the Annihilator in New York -- Pequonnock Bank of Bridgeport -- The Illustrated News -- The World's Fair in New York -- My Presidency of the Association -- Attempt to Excite Public Interest -- Monster Jullien Concerts -- Resignation of the Crystal Palace Presidency -- Failure of the Concern.

In the summer, I think, of 1853, I saw it announced in the newspapers that Mr. Alfred Bunn, the great ex-manager of Drury Lane Theater, in London, had arrived in Boston. Of course, I knew Mr. Bunn by reputation, not only from his managerial career, but from the fact that he made the first engagement with Jenny Lind to appear in London. This engagement, however, Mr. Lumley, of Her Majesty's Theater, induced her to break, he standing a lawsuit with Mr. Bunn, and paying heavy damages. I had never met Mr. Bunn, but he took it for granted that I had seen him, for one day after his arrival in this country, a burly Englishman abruptly stepped into my private office in the Museum, and assuming a theatrical attitude, addressed me: