BARNUM, Phineas Taylor. Autograph Letter Signed (?P.T. Barnum?) to ?Cousin Frank? regarding a specimen?s delivery. Bridgeport, Conn: May 21, 1886. On a sheet of Waldemere lined stationery (9 x 5 ??), folded and tipped onto the pastedown of a detached cloth cover of Barnum?s Humbugs of the World (London: J.C. Hotten). Barnum writes to ?cousin Frank? concerning the delivery of an unnamed ?specimen,? in part: ??I have got to find a place in Tuft?s College Museum or else here for it to stand till our Historical Society in Bridgeport owns a building?which may not be in 20 years! Please inform me about what time you will want to send the specimen off so that I can have a place for him in some other city + not have him sent to Bridgeport as at first contemplated.? Signed ?Truly yours/P.T. Barnum?. Bottom left square cleanly detached at folds; brown spotting.