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241 SelectedBibliography  Following is a list of some of the most important sources in the endnotes, as well as a few other books on Charles Stratton that I did not cite because they used the same primary sources. I have not included the dozens of newspapers or those marginally related sources used only once or twice. Barnum, P. T. Struggles and Triumphs. Author’s Edition. Buffalo, NY: The Courier Company, 1882. ———. Selected Letters of P.T. Barnum. Edited by A. H. Saxon. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. Bleeker, Sylvester. Gen. Tom Thumb’s Three Years’ Tour Around the World. New York: S. Booth, 1872. Bleyer, Julius. Burning of the Newhall House. Milwaukee: Cramer, Aikens, and Cramer, 1883. Carbon copies of P.T. Barnum’s Letters in his own hand 1845–1846. The Barnum Museum Collection. Chemers, Michael. Staging Stigma. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2008. Cross, Helen Reader. The Real Tom Thumb. New York: Four Winds Press, 1980. Desmond, Alice Curtis. Barnum Presents: General Tom Thumb. New York: MacmillanCompany, 1954. Frothingham, Paul Revere. Edward Everett Orator and Statesman. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1925. Gihon, James. Life and Adventures of Tom Thumb. Philadelphia: Grigg, Elliot, and Company, 1849. Grandpapa Pease’s Tom Thumb. Albany, NY: Frank H. Little, 1853. Barnum Museum Collection. Greenwood, Grace. “Lincoln’s Reception to Tom Thumb.” Abraham Lincoln (Tributes from his associates, etc). Edited by William Hayes Ward. New York: Thomas Crowell and Company, 1895. Harris, Neil. Humbug: The Art of P.T. Barnum. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1973. 242 s e l e c t e d b i b l i o g r a p h y History of Commodore Nutt. New York: Wynkoop, Hallenbeck, and Thomas, 1862. The Barnum Museum Collection. Hunt, Mabel Leigh. “Have You Seen Tom Thumb?” Philadelphia: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1942. Life and Travels of Thomas Thumb. Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1849. The Barnum Museum Collection. Magri, Lavinia. The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb (Some of My Life Experiences). Edited by A. H. Saxon. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1979. Odell, George. Annals of the New York Stage. Vols. 1–7. New York: Columbia University Press, 1931. Romaine, Mertie E. General Tom Thumb and His Lady. Taunton, MA: William S. Sullwold Publishing, Inc. 1976. Saxon, A. H. P.T. Barnum: The Legend and the Man. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989. ———. Tom Thumb Performs in Danbury: Extracts from the Oak Cottage Diary of James White Nichols. Fairfield, CT: Jumbo’s Press, 2010. Sketch of the Life: Personal Appearance, Character and Manners of Charles S. Stratton, The Man in Miniature Known as General Tom Thumb. New York: Van Norden and Amerman, 1847. The Barnum Museum Collection. Sketch Of The Life, Personal Appearance, Character And Manners Of Charles S. Stratton, The Man In Miniature, Known As General Tom Thumb, And His Wife, Lavinia Warren Stratton; Including The History Of Their Courtship And Marriage, With Some Account Of Remarkable Dwarfs, Giants, & Other Human Phenomena, Of Ancient And Modern Times, And Songs Given At Their Public Levees. New York: Wynkoop and Hallenbeck, 1863. The Barnum Museum Collection. Smith, Albert. Hop O’ My Thumb, or The Seven League Boots, A Romance of Nursery History in Two Acts, written expressly for General Tom Thumb. London: Thomas Brettell, 1846. New York Historical Society. Sullivan, George. Tom Thumb: The Remarkable True Story of a Man in Miniature. Boston: Clarion Books, 2011. Tom Thumb and the Ogre, being a birthday performance on Tom’s Arriving at the age of 9. Torquay: E. Cockrem, 1855. New York Historical Society. ...

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