Ten months after the war, a man in Washington hopes a woman he knew in Richmond has come to the city.
Transcribed from original newspaper scans. Published by AseeksB.
PERSONAL.—If Miss SARAH HALL, formerly of Richmond, Va., is in the city, she will please drop a line through the Post Office, to ANDERSON.
| Newspaper | Evening Star, Washington, District of Columbia |
|---|---|
| Date | February 12, 1866, image 3 of the scanned issue (no printed page number) |
| Written by | A man, Anderson |
| Addressed to | One woman, Sarah Hall |
| Where | Replies through the post office |
The Civil War had ended the previous spring, and Washington was full of people who had been scattered by it.
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 trailing printer's code at the end of the notice is omitted. 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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