# Mr. Locke — The Humbugs of the World character guide

> Mr. Locke in The Humbugs of the World by P. T. Barnum.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Locke

**First appearance:** 0009-v

## Who they are

A man who attempted to humbug Barnum with a fake letter.

## In the story

### [The Moon-Hoax](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_humbugs_of_the_world_se/chapters/xxxii)

Richard Adams Locke, the author of the Moon-Hoax, then a young editor at the Sun and the only shorthand reporter in New York.

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