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PGCJ.763.011
5 Feb 1763:33 (16)
As I am one of your female readers, you may well think I was
not very well pleased on seeing a piece, which was published
in your paper of January 22; (altho' I commend you for
gratifying the writer by publishing it:) But was agreeably
entertained with your last, where Philander has undertaken
to vindicate and explain the innocent and laudable
amusements of a dancing-school, and generously to relieve
the female sex who frequent those assemblies, from the low
sarcasms and base insinuations, (as false as they are cruel)
which that author has levelled against them.---Perhaps our
antagonist will say, that my letter is as void of accuracy
as his doughty performance, but let him know, that I did not
set out to combat with him, but to pay a tribute of thanks,
justly due to Philander; and therefore shall make no further
digression, than to beseech A L.V. not to trouble the public
with any more of his shrewd observations, nor expose his
contracted mind to the censure and ridicule of the world. I
am sir, &c. Lucretia. Providence, Feb. 1, 1763.
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