An American gentleman, 40, with a few thousand dollars (1916)

Personal1916

AMERICAN GENTLEMAN, 40, with few thousand dollars, would like to correspond with a good kind lady of means. If interested, write Box 353, Manchester, N. H.

New Hampshire Farmer and Weekly Union, January 26, 1916, p. 11. View the original page at the Library of Congress

In plain English

A 40-year-old American man with a few thousand dollars saved would like to write to a kind woman who has money of her own.

Who wrote it, and to whom

Newspaper	New Hampshire Farmer and Weekly Union, Manchester, New Hampshire
Date	January 26, 1916, page 11
Written by	A man, 40
Addressed to	Women of means
Where	Replies by mail to Manchester, New Hampshire

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correspondence written by men

How to cite this ad

“An American gentleman, 40, with a few thousand dollars.” Personal advertisement, New Hampshire Farmer and Weekly Union (Manchester, New Hampshire), January 26, 1916, p. 11. Transcribed in The Personals Archive, AseeksB, https://www.aseeksb.com/archive/1916-new-hampshire-farmer-american-gentleman-40.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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