A discourse occasioned by the burning of the theatre in the city of Richmond, Virginia, on the twenty-sixth of December, eighteen hundred and eleven
Subtitle: By which awful calamity a large number of valuable lives were lost. : Delivered in the Third Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, on the eighth day of January, 1812, at the request of the Virginia students attached to the medical class, in the University of Pennsylvania
By: By A. Alexander
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 24582
Publisher: Published by Farrand, Hopkins, Zantzinger, and Co. Fry and Kammerer, printers.
Published: 1812
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Fire, 1811; Theaters; Fires and fire prevention; Fires; Theater; Religious aspects; Richmond Theater (Richmond, Va.)
Other titles: The tears of sympathy.
Notes: Half-title: The tears of sympathy.

Includes resolutions of the Virginia students in the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, signed by Robert B. Stark, chairman, and Horace Wellford, secretary, with their statement of concern addressed to Dr. John Adams, chairman of the committee of arrangements at Richmond, and Dr. Adams' reply. This material is printed on [4] p. inserted between the half-title and title page.

Shaw & Shoemaker 24582

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