The invitation from Henry Barnum, general manager of Howes’ Great London Circus –Hippodrome and Sanger’s English Menagerie of Trained Animals, to attend the performance ofthe circus on 19 April 1877 is addressed to Rev. John Bayley and is signed by H.C. Hodges,agent. Also included is a newspaper clipping from The Daily Dispatch, Richmond, Virginia,announcing a change in the number of performances of the circus in Petersburg and inRichmond. A portion of a sermon, possibly by Bayley, is written on the reverse of the invitation.
Invitation to the circus issued by Henry Barnum to Reverend John Bayley in 1877 for a performance in Petersburg, Virginia. On the reverse is a portion of a sermon, possibly written by Bayley.
