- 1Card Introductory
- 2Preface
- 3Contents
- 4Chapter I — Early Life
- 5Chapter II — Incidents and Anecdotes
- 6Chapter III — In Business for Myself
- 7Chapter IV — Struggles for a Livelihood
- 8Chapter V — My Start as a Showman
- 9Chapter VI — My First Travelling Company
- 10Chapter VII — At the Foot of the Ladder
- 11Chapter VIII — The American Museum
- 12Chapter IX — The Road to Riches
- 13Chapter X — Another Successful Speculation
- 14Chapter XI — General Tom Thumb in England
- 15Chapter XII — In France
- 16Chapter XIII — In Belgium
- 17Chapter XIV — In England Again
- 18Chapter XV — Return to America
- 19Chapter XVI — At Home
- 20Chapter XVII — The Jenny Lind Enterprise
- 21Chapter XVIII — The Nightingale in New York
- 22Chapter XIX — Successful Management
- 23Chapter XX — Incidents of the Tour
- 24Chapter XXI — Jenny Lind
- 25Chapter XXII — Close of the Campaign
- 26Chapter XXIII — Other Enterprises
- 27Chapter XXIV — Work and Play
- 28Chapter XXV — The Jerome Clock Company Entanglement
- 29Chapter XXVI — Clouds and Sunshine
- 30Chapter XXVII — Rest, but Not Rust
- 31Chapter XXVIII — Abroad Again
- 32Chapter XXIX — In Germany
- 33Chapter XXX — In Holland
- 34Chapter XXXI — The Art of Money Getting
- 35Chapter XXXII — An Enterprising Englishman
- 36Chapter XXXIII — Richard’s Himself Again
- 37Chapter XXXIV — Menagerie and Museum Memoranda
- 38Chapter XXXV — East Bridgeport
- 39Chapter XXXVI — More About the Museum
- 40Chapter XXXVII — Mr. and Mrs. General Tom Thumb
- 41Chapter XXXVIII — Political and Personal
- 42Chapter XXXIX — The American Museum in Ruins
- 43Chapter XL — My War on the Railroads
- 44Chapter XLI — Bennett and the Herald
- 45Chapter XLII — Public Lecturing
- 46Chapter XLIII — The New Museum
- 47Chapter XLIV — Curious Coincidences — Number Thirteen
- 48Chapter XLV — A Story-Chapter
- 49Chapter XLVI — Sea-Side Park
- 50Chapter XLVII — Waldemere
- 51Appendix. Rest Only Found in Action
- 52Conclusion
- 53Appendix II
Struggles and Triumphs
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