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Newspaper
Georgetown Gazette
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1801
Page
4
The poem relates a lover's lament over Delia's hair lock and her anger. He appeals for mercy from nature and fate, vows to undo time, and longs to erase the memory of the fatal lock as Delia's gaze pierces his heart. The speaker curses the lock and imagines dramatic, mythic retribution for his transgression.
A London letter celebrates the Public Advertiser as a source of varied entertainment after noting readers overindulge in mixed content. It suggests reading the column pairs separately then together for broader variety and subplots, and includes humorous notices about court, arrests, baptisms, and political gossip drawn from the paper.
Fragmented notes recount a cabinet council at a St James's street fruit shop about repairs costing the public money. The excerpt mentions a 80 pound turtle carried before an alderman and various unrelated items from court and city life.
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