LINES, / COMPOSED ON THE DREADFUL AND UNTIMELY DEATH OF DANIEL BROWN AND JOHN / HARVEY, both of Nottingham, N.H. (near neighbors and brothers-in-law) … / [followed by 9 lines of prose, describing their deaths by fire while resting in camp following a day of burning a coal pit, and an anonymous poem mourning their loss; composed of 24 8-line stanzas and a final quatrain, printed in three columns, separated by ornamental rules, the whole enclosed by a bold black mourning border]. Authorship attribution at head of poem: “By a Youth.”
[Nottingham or Portsmouth, NH]: 1816. Printed broadside, 12 x 6 ½ inches (trimmed to the border edge), the prose section printed across the top, flanked by illustrations of a coffin (each 2 x ½ inches). Not recorded in American Imprints. OCLC locates two copies (Massachusetts Historical Society, American Antiquarian Society)..... More