Photographs exchanged, with matrimony in view, five days after Lincoln died.
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GOOD MORNING, LADIES.—I should be delighted to hear from you; object, an agreeable correspondence, with a view to matrimony. Carte de Visite exchanged, to make it the more interesting. Address Box 284. I am yours, WILL DE WITT.
| Newspaper | The Sun, Baltimore, Maryland |
|---|---|
| Date | April 20, 1865, page 3 |
| Written by | A man, signing Will De Witt |
| Addressed to | Women reading the paper |
| Where | Box 284 |
A carte de visite was a small photograph mounted on a card. The notice ran in the Sun’s PERSONAL column five days after Abraham Lincoln died, and the Library of Congress holds the issue in its Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana. Just above it, a cousin asked for news of Thomas Byrne and his sister, natives of County Mayo, Ireland. For where people in DC, Baltimore, and Delaware post personal ads now, see our guide to personal ads in DC, Baltimore, and Delaware.
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 words of each ad in capitals.
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