Theatre on fire. Awful calamity!: 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 -
Printed area measures ca. 22.8 cm x 18.0 cm. Poetry in 14 four-line stanzas about the theater fire in Richmond, Va. in December 1811. Within mourning border, printed in two columns divided by heavy single line. Wood-engraving of burning house at head of text. Boston place of publication because of copy in the American Antiquarian Society's Isaiah Thomas Collection.
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