Explore "Struggles and Triumphs" by P.T. Barnum on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Sale of the Museum Collection -- Supplementary Proceedings of My Creditors -- Examinations in Court -- Barnum as a Bar Tender -- Persecution -- The Summer Season on Long Island -- The Museum Man on Show -- Charles Howell -- A Great Natural Curiosity -- Value of a Honk -- Proposing to Buy It -- A Black Whale Pays My Summer's Board -- A Turn in the Tide -- The Wheeler and Wilson Sewing Machine Company -- Their Removal to East Bridgeport -- The Terry and Barnum Clock Factory Occupied -- New City Property Looking Up -- A Loan of $5,000 -- The Cause of My Ruin Promises to Be My Redemption -- Setting Sail for England -- General Tom Thumb -- Little Cordelia Howard.
In the summer of 1855, previous to my financial troubles, feeling that I was independent and could retire from active business, I sold the American Museum collection and good will to Messrs. John Greenwood, Junior, and Henry D. Butler. They paid me double the amount the collection had originally cost, giving me notes for nearly the entire amount secured by a chattel mortgage, and hired the premises from my wife, who owned the Museum property lease, and on which, by the agreement of Messrs. Greenwood and Butler, she realized a profit of $19,000 a year. The chattel mortgage of Messrs. Greenwood and Butler, was, of course, turned over to the New York assignee with the other property.