[3][6][9] Looking back at the season the following year, The Weekly Dispatch reported that "All the phrases to be found in the puffing vocabulary were exhausted in announcing the appearance of Miss Shirreff.

[4] Her other parts included Polly in The Beggar's Opera, which was described as "peculiarly adapted for her chaste and expressive style of singing".

[13] Leander Zerbini wrote a song for her, a ballad called We Loved; or, Fortune, Titles, and Beauty, which was advertised as "Composed expressly for Miss Shirreff, who possesses the sweetness of Waylett and Stephens, soul of Love, execution of Paton, science of Pasta, and finish of Malibran".

[9] Performances started at the National Theatre and the troupe then toured to Boston, Providence, Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia.

[9] The company's other productions included La sonnambula, in which Shirreff sang Amina, Fra Diavolo and Cinderella.

[9] Following the 1838-39 season, Shirreff and Wilson organised summer concert tours in 1839 through New York State, Ohio, Michigan, and to Canada.

[9] Towns and cities in which they performed included Albany, Utica, Syracuse, Buffalo, Toronto, Kingston and Montreal.

[9] These summer tours went well, but when Shirreff and Wilson returned to Baltimore to begin the new operatic season, this was much less successful and has been called "an unmitigated disaster", partly because of the difficult economic climate.