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PP-P.781.129
11 Dec 1781:13 (11/818)
London, July 28. Extract of a letter from an officer in
Charles-Town, to his friend in London, dated May 20th.
[Complaints about the rebel soldiers and citizens]
The assemblies which the officers have opened, in hopes to
give an air of gaiety and chearfulness to themselves and the
inhabitants, are but dull and gloomy meetings; the men play
at cards, indeed to avoid talking, but the women are seldom
or never to be persuaded to dance. Even in their dresses
the females seem to bid us defiance; the gay toys which are
imported here they despise: they wear their own home-spun
manufactures, and take care to have in their breast knots,
and even on their shoes, something that resembles their flag
of thirteen stripes. An officer told Lord Cornwallis not
long ago, that he believed if he had destroyed all the men
in North-America, we should have enough to do to conquer the
women.-- I am heartily tired of this country, and wish
myself at home.
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