Theatre on fire. Awful calamity!
Subtitle: A letter from Richmond, Virginia dated Dec. 27, says, "Last night the theatre took fire and was consumed, together with about 80 people, with the Governor Smith ..." Later accounts say, 160 skull bones have been found
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 21477
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1812
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Fire, 1811; Theaters; Fires and fire prevention; Fires; Richmond Theater (Richmond, Va.)
Notes: Verse in fourteen stanzas concerning the fire at the theater in Richmond on Dec. 26, 1811; first lines: Oh! what a painful, dreadful task, which we are call'd to pen.

American Antiquarian Society copy bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v. I, no. 110, "purchased from a ballad printer and seller in Boston" and presented to the society in August 1814.

Text in two columns; printed area, including mourning border, measures 22.8 x 18.0 cm.

Shaw & Shoemaker 21477

Ford, W.C. Thomas ballads, 266

Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.