[10] _The Early Years of the Saturday Club_, by Edward Waldo Emerson, p. 101. [11] In _Samuel Butler, A Memoir_, by Henry Festing Jones, p. 126, Vol. II, there is a characteristic anecdote of Otto Goldschmidt. It concerns Goldschmidt and W. R. Rockstro, who taught Samuel Butler and Henry Festing Jones harmony and counterpoint, and who was one of the authors of _Memoir of Madame Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt_. Jones writes: “During the time we knew him [Rockstro], but I forget precisely when, he fell from the top of an omnibus near South Kensington Station. Otto Goldschmidt ... came to see him in the hospital, and Rockstro told Goldschmidt all about the accident. Goldschmidt would not believe him and said: “‘You don’t mean to tell me you fell off from the top of the bus down to the ground?’ “‘Yes, I do,’ said Rockstro, ‘right off from the top down to the ground, and they took me into the pastrycook’s before bringing me here.’ “Next day Goldschmidt went to see Rockstro again and said: “‘I find you are quite right. I have been to the pastrycook’s and you actually did fall from the top of the bus to the road.’ “Butler was amused when he heard this, and made the wicked comment that as Otto Goldschmidt had known Rockstro nearly all his life he ought to have been able to form a correct idea of his truthfulness without calling at the pastrycook’s for confirmation.” [12] Autograph Letter in the collection of Leonidas Westervelt, New York. [13] New York Tribune, July 2, 1853. [14] _History of the American Clock Business for the Past Sixty Years, and Life of Chauncey Jerome, Written by Himself; Barnum’s Connection with the Yankee Clock Business._ New Haven, 1860. [15] Barnum had persuaded General Tom Thumb and other performers to give benefit performances for the Mountain Grove Cemetery in Bridgeport. [16] The accounts of Barnum’s supplementary proceedings are taken from the _New York Tribune_ for March, 1856, where they were published daily from the stenographic records. [17] Barnum verified this account of General Tom Thumb’s proposal by the confirmations of both the General and Lavinia Warren. [18] _Bridgeport Daily Standard_, March 24, 1875. [19] Autograph Letter in the Harvard Theater Collection, Harvard College Library. [20] Major J. B. Pond in his book, _Eccentricities of Genius_, described the interior of “Waldemere” as “a museum of itself.” “All the gems of the old museum that were of extraordinary interest as curios were to be seen there. Although he cared nothing especially for rare paintings, the things that he gathered about him seemed designed to attract the eye rather than the ear or the finer qualities of the mind.” P. 352.