An Elegy, occasioned by the melancholly [sic] catastrophe, which happen'd in the night of the 10th. of August, 1774 : in which the following persons perished in the unrelenting flames ... viz. Mrs. Murphy and her two small children, Mrs. Fling and Mrs. Whitemore.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | [Boston] : Sold at the printing-office in Milk-Street [by John Kneeland], [1774] |
| Description | 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cuts) |
| Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
| Subjects |
| Series | Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42590. ^A478749 |
| General note | Verse of forty-two lines; first lines: There's not a day goes by, but we behold, at truth, that men need often to be told. |
| General note | John Kneeland printed at this address in Boston in 1774. |
| General note | Text in two columns surrounded by mourning border; headband (Reilly 31) and relief cuts of five coffins (Reilly 1220). |
| References | Bristol B3729 |
| References | Shipton & Mooney 42590 |
| References | Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1723 |
| Other forms | Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42590). |
| Genre/form | Broadsides. |
| Genre/form | Elegies. |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |