If Mrs. D. E. has returned to New York (1862)

Personal1862

IF MRS. D. E. HAS RETURNED TO NEW YORK, SHE will much oblige her friend (who had the pleasure of paying some attention to her in the cars to Baltimore on Sunday night, the 9th inst.,) by making an appointment for an interview in regard to explanations, either through "Personals" in the Herald or by address to J. B. Williams, N. Y. Post office, Nassau street.

New York Herald, February 20, 1862, p. 7. View the original page at the Library of Congress

In plain English

If the woman he calls Mrs. D. E. is back in New York, the man who kept her company on the train to Baltimore on the night of Sunday the 9th would be grateful if she would arrange to meet and talk things over, either through the Herald's personals or by writing to J. B. Williams at the post office on Nassau Street.

Who wrote it, and to whom

Newspaper	New York Herald, New York, New York
Date	February 20, 1862, page 7
Written by	A man, signing as J. B. Williams
Addressed to	One woman, Mrs. D. E.
Where	Replies through the Herald's personals or the Nassau Street post office

Context

The cars was the ordinary nineteenth-century word for a railroad train, and inst., short for instant, meant this month. The phrase in regard to explanations leaves a great deal unsaid.

In the Personals Dictionary

Inst.The cars Personal column

Tagged

missed connections written by men

How to cite this ad

“If Mrs. D. E. has returned to New York.” Personal advertisement, New York Herald (New York, New York), February 20, 1862, p. 7. Transcribed in The Personals Archive, AseeksB, https://www.aseeksb.com/archive/1862-new-york-herald-mrs-d-e-cars-to-baltimore.html.

Public domain in the United States: published before 1931.

Transcribed from the page image and checked against the original; spelling and punctuation are as printed, and words broken across lines are rejoined. Capital letters are also as printed: papers set the first line of each ad in capitals, so the capitals stop wherever that line ended, sometimes in the middle of a word.

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