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When the latest issue of Atlas Obscura popped up in my Inbox on the Monday after Christmas, its timely subject title caught my eye: “When Mrs. Claus cracked the North Pole’s glass ceiling.”

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This week’s blog post, #74, is the last in the series featuring one of the Barnum Museum’s greatest treasures, P. T. Barnum’s letter copybook from 1845 to 1846. 

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Barnum returned to England in early summer of 1846 after a few weeks’ visit home.  For reasons we will never know, there is a considerable gap between the time of his return and the dates of the last letters his copybook. 

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As we have journeyed through our letter-reading odyssey, I’ve often felt that composing these blog posts from Barnum’s copybook was like weaving fabric, bringing together the threads of various tales and gradually seeing the stories, like patterns in woven cloth, emerge as my work progressed.