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not take roles in plays or operas. On July 4, 1799,
Shaw opened a new music store at No. 92, Market- .
Street, with a general assortment of music and musical
instruments, received by the Thetis, from London.²³
Mrs. Shaw's millinery shop was removed to the same
address. On December 4th of that same vear she adver-
tised having received from London such creations as
"the Minorca bonnet, Rutland Park do ... Suwarrow cap
... Moorish night cap"; and added a postscript, "Just
published at the above place, a variety of new songs.²⁴
Without doubt these were songs which Shaw had announced
as being nearly ready for publication on November 12.²⁵

Only two songs bearing Shaw's Baltimore imprint
have been discovered; both are from Dussek's opera,
the Captive of Spilberg; they are Heigho²⁶ and Good
Night,²⁷ and both were probably printed between Novem-
ber 12 and December 4, 1799.

Shaw removed his New Music Store to "the third
door above Brydon's tavern, Light-street" about
December 23;²⁸ he probably did not regain in Baltimore
after 1800, for he disappears from the Baltimore
Directory after that date; he is listed in the Phila-

23 Federal gazette. July 2, 1799.

24 Telegraphe. December 4, 1799.

25 Ibid. November 12, 1799.

26 Appendix A. Imprint bibliography, item 486.

27 Appendix A. Imprint bibliography, item 487.

28 Telegraphe, December 23, 1799.