From H. to L.: call Monday afternoon sure (1877)

Personal1877

PERSONAL—FROM H. TO L.—CALL MONDAY afternoon sure. I leave the city on Tuesday.

Chicago Daily Tribune, September 2, 1877, p. 12. View the original page at the Library of Congress

In plain English

H. tells L. to come by on Monday afternoon without fail, because H. is leaving Chicago on Tuesday.

Who wrote it, and to whom

Newspaper	Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois
Date	September 2, 1877, page 12
Written by	Signed H.
Addressed to	One person, L.

In the Personals Dictionary

Personal column

Tagged

coded messages

How to cite this ad

“From H. to L.: call Monday afternoon sure.” Personal advertisement, Chicago Daily Tribune (Chicago, Illinois), September 2, 1877, p. 12. Transcribed in The Personals Archive, AseeksB, https://www.aseeksb.com/archive/1877-chicago-tribune-from-h-to-l.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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