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可互博-图中f1 SS নবম পত্র । ক্যাপটিভ লেডী রচনা সম্বন্ধে-বাবু গৌৱদাস বিশাককে লিখিত ;- MADRAS 19th MARCH, Ι849. MY DEAREST FRIEND, I hardly know how to thank you for your letter ;- accept my best thanks for your exertion on my behalf. I have just heard from my old friends-Buncu, Soroop and Bhoodeb. I shall write to them as soon as I have time. Pray, tell them so with my kind love. The "Captive' is nearly ready-I am going to dedicate it to George Norton Esqr, the Advocate-General of the Presidency and a great encourager of Literature. I wrote to him for his permission to dedicate the Poem to him and sent the whole of the 1st and part of the 2nd Cantos for his perusal. You have no idea what a kind and flattering reply I got from him. He says he will consider it an honour to have a work 'exhibiting such great powers and promise" dedicated to him. I have great hopes from his patronage. I wonder how the Calcutta-critics will receive me. You are right.-I ought to have sent a prospectus to you. However, better luck next time; it is too late now. have, ( would you believe it P) commenced and written greater part of the 1st canto of another Tale If I can work out my thoughts, it will be a glorious Poem, I promise you. I write this with a severe head-ache, so you must excuse my blunders. So, old Bhoodeb has