An unsigned message to someone called Latimer, and a meeting set in figures only one reader could be sure of.
Transcribed from original newspaper scans. Published by AseeksB.
LATIMER.—I WAITED AT NINETEENTH TILL 8. Scarcely expected you. Can't we name Saturday, at 7—14—2, for half an hour or more? I would name to-morrow, only fearing I will be engaged. Write, please.
| Newspaper | New York Herald, New York, New York |
|---|---|
| Date | February 21, 1862, page 7 |
| Written by | Unsigned |
| Addressed to | One person, called Latimer |
| Where | Replies by letter |
Messages like this one were written to be understood by one reader and no one else. The figures 7, 14, 2 are printed exactly as shown. They may be plain directions, 7 o'clock at 14th Street and 2nd Avenue, a short walk from Nineteenth, or a private code only Latimer could read. The same column carried several missed connections that day, including a lady with a small basket on a Second Avenue car.
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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