The Papel Periodico de la Havana, 1790, and the public library its subscriptions paid for

A twice-weekly half-sheet begun in Havana on 31 October 1790, edited first by the Captain General himself and then by a committee of the economic society. Its editors printed a wholesale price list, ship movements and a daily meteorological table, and put the residue of the subscription money into a fund that opened a public library in July 1793. The same sheet carried advertisements for enslaved barbers and closed its notices "with permission of the Superior Government".