Letters on the new theatre / [by a Father]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hale, David, 1791-1849.

Series:

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Moral and ethical aspects--Massachusetts--Boston.

Theater.

Theaters--Massachusetts--Boston.

Theaters.

Tremont Theatre (Boston, Mass.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (15, [1] p. )

Place of Publication:

[Boston : s.n., 1827]

Contents:

Note. The following paragraphs are from "A serious inquiry into the nature and effects of the stage" by Dr. Witherspoon.

Notes:

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.

Reproduction of original from Huntington Library.

Sabin no. 40626.

Cited in:

RLIN, CTRG05-B10111

Contains:

Witherspoon, John, 1723-1794. Serious inquiry into the nature and effects of the stage. Selections.

OCLC:

85801851