A respectable lonely widower, 40, would like to meet a lady of 35 to 40 (1952)

Matrimonial1952

RESPECTABLE lonely gent, widower, 40, like meet lady 35 to 40 view above. Apply H4 this office.

Kalgoorlie Miner, June 10, 1952, p. 7. View the original page on Trove, National Library of Australia

In plain English

A respectable, lonely widower of 40 would like to meet a woman aged 35 to 40, with a view to marriage. Replies go to H4 at the newspaper’s office.

Who wrote it, and to whom

Newspaper	Kalgoorlie Miner, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Date	June 10, 1952, page 7
Section	Matrimonial
Written by	A widower, 40
Addressed to	Women aged 35 to 40
Where	Replies to H4, care of the Kalgoorlie Miner

Context

The Kalgoorlie Miner, first published in 1895, was the newspaper of the Western Australian goldfields, printed in Kalgoorlie, about 600 kilometres east of Perth. Its classified pages carried a short column headed Matrimonial, and replies usually went to a box number or a pen name at the paper’s office.

“View above” most likely points back to the heading over the column, Matrimonial: he would like to marry. The Kalgoorlie Miner carried the same shorthand in 1937, when a quiet young man of 35 asked for “friendship and above.” He signs with a reply code, H4, rather than a name.

In the Personals Dictionary

Lonely hearts With a view to matrimony Box, care of the office

Tagged

matrimony widows and widowers written by men

How to cite this ad

“A respectable lonely widower, 40, would like to meet a lady of 35 to 40.” Matrimonial advertisement, Kalgoorlie Miner (Kalgoorlie, Western Australia), June 10, 1952, p. 7. Transcribed in The Personals Archive, AseeksB, https://www.aseeksb.com/archive/1952-kalgoorlie-miner-lonely-widower-view-above.html.

Public domain in Australia, where it was published in 1952 without the writer’s name.

Transcribed from the page image on Trove and checked against the original; spelling, abbreviations, and punctuation are as printed, and words broken across lines are rejoined.

← 1950: Letters from a lady of 50, and an appointment at 8 o’clock 1954: Gent, 39, wishes to meet young lady, view matrimony →

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