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HIS PRIVATE LETTERS. 169 Association," with a view to write good letters to each other and thereby acquire facility in writing. There was another Society called "Society for the the Acquisition of General Knowledge" in which Ram Gopal and his friends read discourses on various political, social, and economic questions as will be ap- parent from his private letters published below. The exact dates when these Clubs and Societies were es- tablished cannot now be ascertained, but they must have sprung up between the year 1833 when the great English Orator, Mr. George Thompson came to this country, and the year 1838 from which period we have got his private letters. As these private letters have not yet been published by any body, we gladly make room for them in preference to other matters : — CHAPTER IV. HIS PRIVATE LETTERS. 29th October im. My dew Rusik, Mr. Anderson complained, on Sunday last, of your and his native friends in general visiting him very scarcely. He told me he had often written chits and torn them away, fearing that he might be considered to press invitation too often. Will you therefore go to him to-morrow evening, and ask Gobind Basack to go with us, as Mr. Anderson wishes to see him and asked me to take Gobind to his house one evening. Mr. Joseph and Mr. Burgess will be invited by Mr. Ander- son to meet you there. Ever yours affectionately, r Ram Gopal Ghose. Calcutta 17th May 1831 My dear Gobind, I have had the pleasure of receiving two or three letters from you, and as noue of them have been acknowledged, you, 22