I am trying to locate an extant copy of a nineteenth-century temperance melodrama variously titled Little Katy or the Hot Corn Girl, Little Katy or the Hot Corn Girl of New York, or simply Hot Corn. The play was adapted from a serialization in the New York Tribune by Solon Robinson and a subsequent novel published by DeWitt & Davenport. Described by Odell as having "created excitement in New York equal to that of Uncle Tom's Cabin," versions of Hot Corn were mounted simultaneously at three separate theatres in the spring of 1854. The first, Little Katy or the Hot Corn Girl, was an adaptation by C. W. Taylor. The production, mounted at Purdy's National Theatre in New York and featuring Cordelia Howard (the original Little Eva in Uncle Tom's Cabin, also at Purdy's National), alternated with Aiken's adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic. A second version (Hot Corn), adapted by H. J. Conway was staged at Barnum's American Museum; while a third version (adapter unknown) featuring Fanny Herring as Wild Maggie was presented at the Bowery. If anyone has happened upon an extant copy of the playtext (any version), I would greatly appreciate hearing from you. I can be contacted at my department address; at 804-924-1447 (FAX); or at [log in to unmask] John W. Frick Associate Professor Department of Drama Culbreth Theatre University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22903