Index Entry | Balls, in Calcutta, essay, ought to be curtailed in bad times, but have not |
Location | Bengal |
Citation | PGCJ.771.027 29 Jun 1771:13 (390) London, April 3. . . Extract of a letter from an officer at Bengal, dated Calcutta, September 4. Balls, concerts, and all public entertainments, ought to subside at this time of general scarcity; but I am sorry to say they have not; and under the doors and windows of these places of amusement, lie many dead bodies, and other again in all the agonies of death, despair and want. But let me quit this melancholy subject. . . |
Generic Title | Providence Gazette |
Date | 1771.06.29 |
Publisher | Carter, John |
City, State | Providence, RI |
Year | 1771 |
Bibliography | B0041981 |