A lady of 40 desires the acquaintance of a few gentlemen (1878)

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PERSONAL—A LADY OF 40 DESIRES THE ACquaintance of a few gentlemen over that age. Address X 58, Tribune office.

Chicago Daily Tribune, March 10, 1878, p. 12. View the original page at the Library of Congress

In plain English

A 40-year-old woman would like to meet a few men who are older than her.

Who wrote it, and to whom

Newspaper	Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois
Date	March 10, 1878, page 12
Written by	A woman, 40
Addressed to	Men over 40
Where	Replies to the Tribune office

Context

Most ads of the period asked for one suitable match. This one asks, without apology, for a few.

In the Personals Dictionary

Wishes to form the acquaintance of Box, care of the office

Tagged

written by women

How to cite this ad

“A lady of 40 desires the acquaintance of a few gentlemen.” Personal advertisement, Chicago Daily Tribune (Chicago, Illinois), March 10, 1878, p. 12. Transcribed in The Personals Archive, AseeksB, https://www.aseeksb.com/archive/1878-chicago-tribune-lady-of-40-few-gentlemen.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. The box number is taken from the page image; the newspaper's machine-read text has it wrong. 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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