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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. : 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 student attached to the medical class, in the University of Pennsylvania by A. Alexander
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alexander, Archibald, 1772-1851.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Richmond Theater Fire, Richmond, Va., 1811.
- Theaters--Fires and fire prevention.
- Theaters.
- Fires--Virginia--Richmond.
- Fires.
- Richmond (Va.)--Theater disaster, 1811.
- Richmond (Va.).
- Richmond (Va.)--Fires and fire prevention.
- Genre:
- Sermons -- 1812.
- Wrappers (Binding).
- Physical Description:
- [4], 24 p. ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Tears of sympathy
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia: : Published by Farrand, Hopkins, Zantzinger, and Co. Fry and Kammerer, printers., 1812.
- 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.
- "The tears of sympathy" (Proceedings of the Virginia students in the medical class of the University of Pennsylvania): 1st-3rd prelim. leaves.
- Local Notes:
- HSP copy on deposit in the Library Company of Philadelphia.
- Cited in:
- Shaw & Shoemaker 24582
- Sabin, 721
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