Letters on the new theatre [microform] /
Hale, David,1791-1849.
Witherspoon, John,1723-1794.Serious inquiry into the nature and effects of the stage.Selections.
[Boston : s.n.,
1827]
Five letters, each signed: A Father.
"The following letters were written and published in one of the papers of this city [Boston], while measures were in progress for the erection of a new theatre in Common-street ... . Aug. 1, 1827."--Notice (p. [2])
Joseph P. Thompson's Memoir of David Hale (1850), p. 147, states that Hale addressed these letters in 1826 to the committee for erecting the Tremont Theatre in Boston.
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Note. The following paragraphs are from "A serious inquiry into the nature and effects of the stage" by Dr. Witherspoon.
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