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[from undoubted records, running through a period of one hundred and one years. The dramatic annals of either England or America do not furnish a parallel instance of details so minute.
In conclusion, we would add our thanks to those who have assited us. To the editors of the Sunday Dispatch we are greatly indebted for moulding our chapters into book form. Their researches into our city's early publications and historical records have elicited much valuable dramatic matter, that might for years have laid entombed on the shelves of the Philadelphia and Loganian Library. To these researches, in quest of ancient lore, we owe many valuable facts.
To Lloyd P. Smith, Esq., Librarian and Treasurer of the Philadelphia and Loganian Library, we feel grateful for his many courtesies in allowing us a perusal of his colossal journals, and other rare subjects.
To Mr. James Mc Causland, of this city, a virtuoso in playbill collections, we owe many thanks. His playbill books saved us much inquiry and labored perusal.
To the profession we, with regret, say that we feel less grateful. Our labor there met with but apathetic response, except where some personal matter was involved. We feel it the more sensibly, as our humble abilities desired to elevate the stage and its professors and not to disparage its enlightened functions. If we offended, it was the error of the head, not of the heart. With this chapter, we bid our many readers adieu.]
