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Yesterdate: This day from Kolkata’s past, May 15, 1788

On this day an advertisement published in The Calcutta Chronicle and General Advertiser was about Mrs Stone’s boarding school facilities

Chandrima S. Bhattacharya Published 15.05.23, 04:55 AM
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On this day an advertisement published in The Calcutta Chronicle and General Advertiser was about Mrs Stone’s boarding school facilities.

In it Mrs Stone respectfully informs “the Ladies and Gentlemen of Calcutta” that she intends to open, on June 1, a boarding school for young ladies, “Where they will receive every branch of polite and useful education, upon the most reasonable terms.”Mrs Stone adds that she hopes to satisfy the parents “as it will be her chief study to recommend herself to them by the attention she will pay to the cultivation of their minds”. In two notices that follow later in the same publication Mrs Stone informs, first, that she has taken the large, airy and commodious house that formerly occupied by Sir Robert Chambers, and then by the Rev. Mr Kiernander near Mr. Bristow's, at “Chouringee”, and then, that she will move from the “lower-roomed house” that she now occupies to the “large commodious upper-roomed house” belonging to Charles Grant, “at the Corner of the Chouringee Road, leading to Russapuglah”.

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