The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

From Deborah Dunn's Private Letter to the Boudoir

"From Deborah Dunn's Private Letter to the Boudoir." New York Saturday Press, January 13, 1866, 27.
Electronic Source Available
Type
newspaper
Genre
short fiction
Abstract

Women gossip about how an acquaintance they knew met her husband through an advertisement. One of their group endeavors to do the same, answering an advertisement for a husband only to find that the man is her milkman.