We had a blessed meeting at Southampton. Mr Elwin and I went out in the afternoon and spoke in the avenue (park), a place almost as much thronged as Hyde Park. About three hundred paid attention to the blessed gospel. In the evening the theatre was crowded; it will hold about a thousand. In the after-meeting there were between fifty and sixty, apparently in great distress about their souls. The stage and the little room both were full of anxious ones, sobbing under a sense of their guilt. Mr Elwin remarked that the blessing was equal to any meeting he had seen in London.
"The Revival," January 1st, 1863.
The Theatre Royal burned down in 1884.