Three 19th century broadsheets. Two from Falmouth and one fr...

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Three 19th century broadsheets. Two from Falmouth and one from Penryn. 'The Loss of the "Queen" Transport, On Trefusis Point, Falmouth, January, 1814. Re-produced from The Royal Cornwall Gazette, 1814,' a folio sheet, 330mm x 238mm, and presumably printed c1881-82, as it apparently contains and Extract from the 'Midsummer Society's Midsummer Number, 1881 for John Burton's "Old Curiosity Shop", bottom LHS the journal obviously sounds fictitious, and the sheet was probably instead printed by Burton himself. The actual wreck discussed in Sally Pocock's (June,1997) 2 A Grave Disaster", Cornwall Family History Society July, No.84, p.29; 'The Bethel Union, A New Hymn,' a small 4to sheet of eight-line stanzas over two columns, with illustrations to head and foot, 232mm x 175mm, Key, Printer, Book-Binder, &c. Penryn; E. R. 'An Address to Seamen,' a small 4to sheet, warning against the vices of 'profane swearing, foolish and corrupt language drunkenness, hatred, revenge, &c', noting that seamen generally suffer a '..general depravity in Manners and Morals', 223mm x 173mm, James Trathan, Printer, &c, Falmouth. (3)