AETNA. A DISCOURSE, DELIVERED IN THE NEW-YORK CITY HOSPITAL, ON LORD'S DAY MORNING, MAY 23, 1824. INTENDED AS A MORAL IMPROVEMENT OF THE CALAMITY OCCASIONED BY THE BURSTING OF THE BOILER OF THE STEAM-BOAT AETNA; BY WHICH SEVERAL LIVES WERE LOST. AND, OUT OF NINE PERSONS BROUGHT TO THIS HOSPITAL, THREE ONLY SURVIVED. TO WHICH IS ADDED, SOME ACCOUNT OF THEIR LAST HOURS.
New-York: Printed by E. Conrad, 1824. [2], 21, [1 blank] pp. Frontispiece of woman standing next to monument. Disbound, loosening. Scattered foxing. Ink signature, 'Margaret Dean,' on recto of frontis. Good+.
Sole edition, providing a narrative of the calamity and some of its victims, including "three scalded coloured men" and the black second cook, Ann Thomas; "nearly the whole of her person was scalded." After the disaster a bill was introduced in the House of Representatives to outlaw the high pressure boilers that the Aetna used. DAB sketches the life of Stanford, a preacher, teacher, and reformer.
FIRST EDITION. AI 18076 [8]. OCLC 55634617 [6]. Item #20036
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