Cannot see you today (1893)

Personal1893

PERSONAL—CANNOT SEE YOU TODAY; Saturday's letter received; will see you soon.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 12, 1893, p. 6. View the original page at the Library of Congress

In plain English

I can't see you today. I got your letter from Saturday. I'll see you soon.

Who wrote it, and to whom

Newspaper	Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle, Washington
Date	April 12, 1893, page 6
Written by	Unsigned
Addressed to	One reader

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How to cite this ad

“Cannot see you today.” Personal advertisement, Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, Washington), April 12, 1893, p. 6. Transcribed in The Personals Archive, AseeksB, https://www.aseeksb.com/archive/1893-seattle-post-intelligencer-cannot-see-you-today.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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