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A Concise statement of the awful conflagration of the theatre, in the city of Richmond : which happened on the night of Thursday, the 26th of December last, wherein the governor, and upwards of seventy of its most respectable inhabitants were consumed, and many others very much injured. The whole collected from letters written by respectable persons, who were eye-witnesses to the awful scene

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Publication date: Published January 11, 1812.
Call number: 19270
Dimensions: 20 cm
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