Forms: 3–5 chaumbre, 3–7 chambre, 4 chaumber, 4– chamber. Also chaumbir, -bur, -byr, chawmbire, chambir, -bere, chanbur, 5 chambyr(e, chawmbyr, chaunber, -bour, -byr, chamer, chawmere, caumbre, 5–6 chambur, 6 chamboure, 7 chambor, camber. Also Sc. 4–5 chamur, chalmir, 4–7 chalmer, 5–6 chawmer, 6 chalmyr, 8 chamer, 8–9 chaumer. [a. F. chambre (= Pr. cambra, Sp. camara, It. camera):—L. camera, camara, in Gr. καμάρα vault, vaulted chamber; prob. f. Aryan root kam- to curve, bend. The sense underwent progressive generalization in late L. and Romanic.]
I. A room (in a house).
1. A room or apartment in a house; usually one appropriated to the use of one person; a private room; in later use esp. a sleeping apartment, a bedroom. (Now, in standard English, confined chiefly to elevated style; in colloq. use replaced by room. Cf. BEDCHAMBER.) But in U.S. in more general use; and in some English dialects, = the ‘parlour’ or better room, as distinguished from the kitchen; also a sleeping apartment over a stable or the like.
a. 1300. Floriz & Bl., 443. To anoþer chaumbre hi beoþ agon, To blauncheflures chaumbre non.
c. 1350. Will. Palerne, 3029. Whan þe masse was don, sche went to hire chaumber.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, V. 287. In a chalmer preualy, He held him and his cumpany.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 4977. Led were þo lordes þro mony long chaumburs … into a proude chaumbur þere Priam was set.
c. 1440. Gesta Rom., 94 (Harl. MS.). A prevy caumbre.
1472. Sir J. Paston, in Lett., 706, III. 64. My Lady … hathe takyn hyr chambre.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VIII. viii. 29. Amyd the chalmer doun thaim set.
1535. Coverdale, Prov. xxiv. 4. Chambers … fylled with all costly & pleasaunt riches.
1582–8. Hist. Jas. VI. (1804), 52. Be comitting of murther in hir awin chalmer.
1611. Bible, Gen. xliii. 30. Hee entred into his chamber, & wept there. Ibid., Acts ix. 37. They laid her in an vpper chamber.
1711. Swift, Lett. (1767), III. 191. He and his lady saw me to my chamber just in the country fashion.
1731–1800. Bailey, s.v. Camera, Such Musick as is designed for Chambers and private Consorts.
1821. Southey, in Q. Rev., XXV. 346. He … hardly ever slept two nights successively in one chamber.
1841. Lane, Arab. Nts., I. 104. A curtain suspended before the door of a chamber.
1858. M. Porteous, Souter Johnny, 17. In that apartment generally called the ‘Chamber’ of a farm house.
1863. Atkinson, Danby Provinc., Chamber, an upper room, (1) in a house; a bed room. (2) in a stable or other building; a loft.
1883. T. W. Higginson, in Harper’s Mag., Aug., 437/1. The chambers, being less important in a warm country, were less ample and comfortable in the Southern houses.
b. The reception-room in a palace; called the presence-, or audience-chamber.
2. fig.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 92. Heo is Godes chaumbre.
a. 1400. Cov. Myst. (1841), 115. Farewel, Goddys chawmere and his bowre.
1526. Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 70 b. He maketh our soules his chambre.
1614. T. Adams, Devil’s Banquet, 31. Malice vsurpes the best Chamber in your mindes.
1715–20. Pope, Iliad, VII. 498. From forth the chambers of the main … Arose the golden chariot of the day.
1866. B. Taylor, Funeral Thought, Poems 382. Echo the startled chambers of the soul.
3. pl. a. Rooms forming part of a house or tenement arranged for occupation by single persons; esp. rooms in the Inns of Court occupied by lawyers; also, sets of rooms in a block of buildings for offices, etc. b. The room in which a judge sits to hear causes and transact business not of sufficient importance to be brought into court.
1641. Harcourt, in Macm. Mag., XLV. 288/1. Thine of 6 Decr from Sarjant Glanvieelds chambers,… came to my hands.
1711. Steele, Spect., No. 145, ¶ 5. I have Chambers in the Temple.
1790. Boswell, Johnson, xiii. (ed. Napier), I. 277. He found his old master in Chambers in the Inner Temple.
1818. Cruise, Digest (ed. 2), IV. 360. If the defendant is not satisfied, I will send it to be argued before the Lord Chief Baron and Mr. Justice Burnet, at their chambers.
a. 1834. Lamb, Lett., ix. 87. When I last wrote you I was in lodgings. I am now in Chambers.
1844. Dickens, Christm. Car., i. He [Scrooge] lived in chambers which had once belonged to his deceased partner. Ibid. (1849), Dav. Copperfield (1850), lix. 582. He [Traddles] had chambers in Gray’s Inn, now.
Mod. Newspr. Advt., St. James’s Park Chambers, for Gentlemen … two rooms communicating, unfurnished. Westminster Chambers, Victoria Street, Westminster, London.
4. A hall appropriated to the meetings of a deliberative, legislative or judicial body.
c. 1543. in Dom. Archit., III. 79. The parlement chambre & paynted chambre.
1714. Lond. Gaz., No. 5254/2. The Lords … and others … met … in … the Painted Chamber.
1818. Cruise, Digest (ed. 2), II. 424. Judgement was … reversed in the Exchequer Chamber.
1839. Thirlwall, Greece, III. 326. The multitude that surrounded the doors of the council chamber.
b. A judicial or deliberative assembly or body; a camera. Now esp. one of the ‘houses’ or divisions of a legislative body, as the French ‘chamber of deputies’; so ‘the upper chamber,’ ‘the popular chamber,’ phrases applied to the Houses of Lords and Commons, respectively.
[c. 1325. E. E. Allit. P., B. 1586. Ho herde hym chyde to þe chambre.]
c. 1400. Apol. Loll., 12. Þis þat þe pope reseruiþ to himsilf, & to þe chaumbre.
1589. Puttenham, Eng. Poesie, I. viii. (Arb.), 32. Frauncis the Frenche king made Sangelais, Salmonius, Macrinus, and Clement Marot of his priuy Chamber.
1680. Lond. Gaz., No. 1508/3. The Chamber of Poysons is now going to take in hand the affair of the Duke of Luxemburgh.
1845. Sarah Austin, Ranke’s Hist. Ref., I. 135. The Imperial Chamber … had closed its sittings in June.
1848. W. K. Kelly, trans. L. Blanc’s Hist. Ten Y., I. 387. The chambers … attempted to deal with this important problem…. The discussion in the chamber of deputies.
c. 1850. Lytton, Misc. Prose Wks., II. 109 (Hoppe). To implicate not individual peers, but the Upper Chamber itself as well as the Throne.
1863. H. Cox, Instit., I. vii. 88. The chamber not elected by the people would serve to screen the monarch from the just resentment of the people.
c. Chamber of Commerce: a board organized to protect the interests of commerce in a town or district; so Chamber of Agriculture, etc.
1788. Burns, Ep. Creech. The brethren o’ the Commerce-Chaumer.
1862. Ansted, Channel Isl., IV. xxiv. (ed. 2), 556. There are Chambers of Commerce in both islands.
1870. Emerson, Soc. & Solit., Dom. Life, Wks. (Bohn), III. 44. Not in senates, or courts, or Chambers of Commerce, but in the dwelling-house must the true character … of the time be consulted.
d. in STAR-CHAMBER, CASTLE-CHAMBER, etc.
5. The place where the funds of a government, corporation, etc., are (or were) kept, and where all moneys due to it are received; chamberlain’s office; treasury. [A common sense of med.L. camera.]
1632. Massinger, City Madam, IV. ii. (1658), 57. And when my private house in cram’d abundance Shall prove the chamber of the City poor.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., X. iv. § 21. We mention not the large sums bequeathed by him [Thos. Sutton] to poor, to prisons, to colleges, to mending highways, to the chamber of London.
1711. Luttrell, Brief Rel. (1857), VI. 695. There was remaining in the chamber of London of the charity mony gathered for them upwards of 2000l.
1727–51. Chambers, Cycl., The chamberlain of London keeps the city money, which is laid up in the chamber of London, an apartment in Guildhall.
1823. Act 4 Geo. IV., c. 50 § 107. (for rebuilding London Bridge). The monies … shall be from time to time paid into the Chamber of the City of London.
† 6. [= med.L. camera, F. chambre] A province, city, etc., directly subject, and yielding immediate revenue to the king; more loosely: Capital, metropolis, royal residence; ? royal port or dockyard.
1555. Fardle Facions, I. iv. 46. Garama, the chiefe citie, and as we terme it, the chambre of the king.
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit. (1637), 421 (D.). London … the seat of the British Empire, and the Kings of Englands Chamber.
1631. Weever, Anc. Fun. Mon., 608. This his Citie of Maldon, then the chamber of his kingdome.
1644. Howell, Engl. Tears, Ded. To my Imperial Chamber, the Citie of London. Ibid. (c. 1645), Lett. (1650), 196. Huge fleets of Men of War do daily sail on our seas, and confront the Kings chambers.
1699. in Col. Rec. Penn., I. 564. Those places called the king’s chambers, where shipps of warr are numerous.
7. The hangings or furniture of a chamber. ? Obs.
1612. W. Travers, Supplic. Privy Counsel, 23. I thought it necessarie to vnfold this tapestrie, & to hang vp the whole chamber of it in your most Honorable senate.
1845. Stephen, Laws Eng., II. 212. Her apparel and bedroom furniture, (called the widow’s chamber) was first set aside for her own use.
1859. Turner, Dom. Archit., III. iii. 62. The purchase of a ‘chamber,’ a ‘halling,’ that is, the necessary hangings for those apartments.
b. euphem. for CHAMBER-POT, q.v.
II. An enclosed space, cavity, etc.
8. An enclosed space in the body of an animal or plant; as e.g. the ventricles of the brain; the anterior and posterior chambers of the eye; the chambers or compartments of a shell, etc.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., III. ix. (Tollem. MS.). In þe moste subtil chambris of þe brayne [in subtilissimis cerebri ventriculis]. Ibid., V. xxxvi. (1495), 150. In the herte of a beeste … ben two chambres.
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist. (1776), VI. 219. The first cavity, or chamber of the brain, is filled with … spermaceti.
1831. Brewster, Optics, xxxv. 288. The two parts into which the iris divides the eye are called the anterior and the posterior chambers.
1866. Argyll, Reign Law, v. (ed. 4), 240. The nectar chambers of long tubular flowers.
1882. Vines, Sachs’ Bot., 455. Hollow chambers which extend from base to apex.
9. An artificial space, cavity or room for various purposes; an enclosed space or compartment in a piece of mechanism, etc.
E.g., An underground cavity for holding powder and bombs, called also powder-chamber, bomb-chamber; the space enclosed between the gates of a canal lock; the part of a pump in which the plunger or piston works; and in many specific applications in arts and manufactures.
1769. Falconer, Dict. Marine (1789), Corps de pompe, the chamber of a pump.
1811. A. T. Thomson, Lond. Disp. (1818), 8. Into a chamber lined with sheet lead … water is poured.
1825. J. Nicholson, Operat. Mechanic, 175. The steam is conveyed … into the upper chamber of the upper box.
1837. Ht. Martineau, Soc. Amer., II. 196. Our boat won the race, and we bolted … into the chamber of the first lock.
1879. Cassell’s Techn. Educ., IV. 74/2. These tubes terminate in a small chamber.
b. A concave part leaving a hollow space underneath.
attrib. in open-chamber panel in a saddle, the panel or padded part so stuffed as to allow a current of air to pass between the saddle and the horse’s back.
1888. Saddler’s Price List, Best full shaftoe, suitable for India, with open chamber panel.
10. † a. A detached charge piece in old ordnance to put into the breech of a gun. Obs.
1465. in Paston Lett., 978, III. 436. ij. handgonnes, iiij. chambers for gonnys … Item, a stokke gonne with iij. chambers.
1481–90. Howard Househ. Bks. (1841), 23. ij. lytel broken goonys and three chambers to them.
1627. Capt. Smith, Seaman’s Gram., xiv. 66. Chambers is a charge made of brasse or iron, which we use to put in at the britch of a sling or murtherer, conteining just so much powder as will driue away the case of stones or shot.
1867. Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., Murderer, small pieces of ordnance which were loaded by shifting metal chambers placed in the breech.
† b. Name given in 16–17th c. to a piece of ordnance; esp. a small piece without a carriage, standing on its breech, used to fire salutes. Obs. [Cf. the German büchse, orig. the box or chamber of a gun, now the gun itself, and see HARQUEBUS.]
1540. Sc. Ld. Treasurer’s Acc., in Pitcairn, Crim. Trials, I. 306. Doune-taking of xxx Chalmeris of þe Heid of Davidis Towris … with vthir Chalmeris and Munitioune.
1577. Holinshed, Chron., III. 1209/1. Robert Thomas, maister gunner of England, desirous … to honour the feast and mariage daie … made three great traines of chambers.
1594. Peele, Batt. Alcazar, 124. The trumpets sound, the chambers are discharged.
1597. Shaks., 2 Hen. IV., II. iv. 57. To venture vpon the charg’d-Chambers brauely.
a. 1627. Middleton, World Lost, Wks. V. 190. Stage direction, Chambers shot off within.
1668. Lond. Gaz., No. 255/3. At his Entry into the Town the great Guns and Chambers were discharged.
1727. Brice’s Weekly Jrnl., 13 Oct., 3. Guns and Chambers were fired all Day.
c. That part of the bore of a gun in which the charge is placed (in many obsolete types of ordnance, esp. mortars and howitzers, of smaller diameter than the bore, but now a space of larger diameter: see quot. 1879); in old revolvers, each of the barrels, and in new, each of the compartments of the breeching which contain the charge.
1627. Capt. Smith, Seaman’s Gram., xiv. 66. In a great Peece we call that her Chamber so far as the powder doth reach when she is laded.
1672. W. P., Compl. Gunner, in Mil. & Mar. Discipline, III. iv. 5.
1742. Phil. Trans., XLII. 181. That the Change of the Form in the Chamber, will produce a Change of the Distance to which the Bullet is thrown.
1859. F. A. Griffiths, Artil. Man. (1862), 190. The bullet chamber and bore are rifled. The powder chamber is not rifled, but is of a larger diameter than the bullet chamber.
1874. Knight, Dict. Mech., I. 446/2. The great bronze gun of Moscow … Bore 36 in. diameter; chamber … 19 in. diameter.
1879. Times, 6 Jan., 11/2. The use of air-space left above and about the charge of powder in a suitably shaped chamber, larger than the bore of the gun, has produced the most astonishing results…. It [the 100-ton Armstrong gun] was not originally chambered…. The addition of the chamber … added 6,700 foot-tons … to its striking energy.
1888. Daily News, 26 June, 10/3. A six-chambered revolver was discovered. It was loaded in five chambers, and one of them had evidently been recently discharged.
d. The cavity in a mine for the reception of the powder.
1730–6. Bailey, Chamber of a Mine.
III. In combination.
11. Chamber of Dais. Sc. Also chamber of deas, of deese, chambradeese [Jamieson suggests a F. *chambre au dais, room with a canopy]. A parlor; also a best bedroom. (Jam.)
a. 1605. R. Bannatyne, Jrnl. (1806), 486 (Jam.). Adam immediatlie causit, bier butt the deid corps to the chalmer of davice.
1731. Swift, Mem. Capt. Creichton, 97 (Jam.). The Chamber where he lay was called the Chamber of Deese, which is the Name given to a Room, where the Laird lies when he comes to a Tenant’s House.
1818. Scott, Hrt. Midl., xxvi. And then my mother’s wardrobe, and my grandmother’s forby … they are a’ in the chamber of deas—Oh, Jeanie, gang up the stair and look at them! Ibid. (1824), Redgauntlet, Let. xi. Just opposite the chamber of dais which his master occupied.
12. attrib. and obvious comb., as chamber-ambush, -bawd, -bell, -candle, -candlestick, -door, -groom, -hanging, -keeper, -keeping, -lamp, -physic, -ridden adj. (cf. bed-ridden), -robe, † -room, -servant, -sill, -soot, -sweeping, -wall, -window. Sometimes connoting effeminacy or wantonness, as chamber-combatant (cf. CARPET-KNIGHT), -critic, -delight, † -glew Sc. [see GLEE], -pleasure, -scape, -term.
1671. Milton, Samson, 1112. Nor in the house with *chamber-ambushes Close-banded durst [they] attack me.
1684. Southerne, Disappoint., II. i. Thou art a praying *Chamber-bawd, And truth abhors thee.
1841. Marryat, Poacher, xl. Mrs. Phillips … lighted a *chamber candlestick to go to bed.
1613. Wither, Epithal., B 3 b.
| I meane such *Chamber-combatants; who neuer | |
| Weare other helmet, then a hat of Beuer. |
a. 1637. B. Jonson, Epigr., lxxii. Thou art started up A *chamber-critic, and doth dine, and sup At madam’s table.
1580. Sidney, Arcadia (1674), 33. In the comparison thereof [hunting] he disdained all *chamber-delights.
1516. in Glasscock, Rec. St. Michael’s, Bp. Stortford (1882), 35. For a key to Sr. Johns *chamber-dore viijd.
1602. Shaks., Ham., IV. v. 53. He dupt the chamber dore.
1850. Maginn, Homeric Ballads, 193. Eurynome, as a *chamber-groom With lamp in hand, to the nuptial room The new met partners led.
1611. Shaks., Cymb., V. v. 204. Auerring notes Of *Chamber-hanging, Pictures, [etc.].
1647. R. Stapylton, Juvenal, 52. What giv’st thou to my lord Cossus his *Chamber-keepers?
1375. Barbour, Bruce, V. 580. A *chalmir page thar vith him ȝeid.
1774. M. Mackenzie, Maritime Surv., Introd. 13. The *Chamber-performances of Map-sellers and Drawers, who … never saw any of the Places they delineate.
1601. Holland, Pliny, II. 344. Clinice. Margin, *Chamber-Physicke. So called, because hee visited his patients lying sicke in bed.
a. 1640. Massinger, Bashful Lover, V. iii. (D.). Will you … exchange your Triumphs For *Chamber-pleasures?
c. 1630. Drum. of Hawth., Poems, Wks. (1711), 56/1. His *chamber-prayers, Which are pour’d ’midst sighs and tears To avert God’s fearful wrath.
1627. Bp. Hall, Medit. & Vowes, I. v. Satan may looke in at my doores … but he shall not haue … one *chamber-roome … to soiourne in.
a. 1618. J. Davies, Extasie, Wks. (1876), 92 (D.). The *chamber-scapes, The sinnes ’gainst Nature, and the brutish rapes.
1856. Olmsted, Slave States, 49. The *chamber-servants are negroes, and are accomplished in their business; (the dining-room servants are Irish).
1670. Eachard, Cont. Clergy, 16. Bed-making, *Chamber-sweeping, and Water-fetching.
1597. 1st Pt. Return fr. Parnass., III. i. 888. Sir Oliver, Sir Randal, base, base *chamber-tearmes!
a. 1613. Overbury, A Wife (1638), 120. He begins to sticke his letters in his ground *Chamber-window.
1878. Browning, La Saisiaz, 16. The chamber-window’s open.
13. Special comb., chamber-barrister, a barrister who confines himself to chamber-practice; † chamber-bored a., of a piece of ordnance, having a chamber of different bore from that of the piece; chamber-cast, a cast of the chambers of a shell; † chamber-child, -chiel(d, Sc. ‘a servant who waits in a gentleman’s chamber, a valet’ (Jam.); chamber-concert, a concert where chamber-music is performed; chamber-counsel, (a.) private counsel or business; (b.) opinion given by a lawyer in private chambers (see sense 3 b); (c.) a lawyer who gives opinions in private, not in court; chamber-counsellor = prec.; chamber-horse, ? a rocking-horse; † chamber-letter, one who lets rooms for hire; chamber-man, a bedroom attendant (cf. CHAMBERMAID); chamber-mate, one who shares the same room with another, a CHAMBER-FELLOW; chamber-milliner, a milliner who carries on business in a private house, not in a shop; chamber-music, that class of music specially fitted for performance in a private room, as distinguished from a concert-room, church, etc.; chamber-organ, a small organ suitable for a private room; chamber-piece = CHAMBER 10 b; chamber-pitch (Mus.), (see quot.); chamber-practice (Law), practice in chambers and not in court, the practice of a chamber-counsel; † chamber-stead, a place for a chamber; chamber-stool, a close-stool; chamber-story (Arch.), ‘that story of a house appropriated for bed-rooms’ (Gwilt); chamber-study, private study (see quot.); chamber-utensil, -vessel = CHAMBER-POT; chamber-work, † (a.) sexual indulgence (obs.); (b.) the work of a chamber-maid. See also CHAMBER-DEACON, -FELLOW, -LYE, -MAID, -POT.
1888. Pall Mall Gaz., 9 Jan., 14/1. He believed that there were one or two ladies practising as *chamber barristers.
1669. Sturmy, Mariner’s Mag., II. V. xii. 58. To know whether your Piece be *Chamber-bored.
1875. J. W. Dawson, Dawn of Life, vii. 185. Dr. Gümbel, observing … grains of coccolith in crystalline calcareous marbles, considered them to be *‘chamber casts’ or of organic origin.
1546. J. Lindsay, Lett., in Tytler, Hist. Scot. (1864), III. 374/2. Ye cardinal’s *chalmer child.
c. 1568. Murray, in H. Campbell, Love-lett. Mary Q. Scots, App. 48. Dalgleishe, chalmer-child to my Lord Bothwell, wes takin, and the box and letteris quilk he brought out of the castell.
1836. Musical Libr., Suppl. III. 19. The … Soirées Musicales established at Paris … probably suggested the *Chamber Concerts.
1611. Shaks., Wint. T., I. ii. 237. I haue trusted thee With all … My *Chamber-Councels.
1691. Wood, Ath. Oxon., II. 107. Selden … gave sometimes *Chamber-Counsel, and was good at conveyance.
1850. Grote, Greece, II. lxii. VIII. 25. His silent assistance in political and judicial debates, as a sort of chamber-counsel, was highly appreciated.
1711. Steele, Spect., No. 2, ¶ 6. He is … among Divines what a *Chamber-Counsellor is among Lawyers.
1774. Wesley, Wks. (1872), XIV. 268. Those who cannot afford this [riding], may use a *chamber-horse.
1835–6. Todd, Cycl., I. 248/2. The difference between riding a chamber-horse and a real one.
1670. G. H., Hist. Cardinals, I. III. 74. The *Chamber-men … put on their Cardinalitial habits.
1884. Higginson, Com. Sense about Wom., xlii. 173. [She] has her pillow smoothed and her curtains drawn, not by a chambermaid, but by a chamberman.
1886. Brodrick, Hist. Univ. Oxford, 22. His *chamber-mates and class-mates.
1779. Johnson, L. P., Milton, Wks. (1816), 92. He was a *chamber-milliner and measured his commodities only to his friends.
a. 1789. Burney, Hist. Mus., III. Introd. p. ix. *Chamber Music, such as cantatas, single songs, solos, trios, [etc.].
1879. Grove, Dict. Mus., s.v. 332.
1706. Lond. Gaz., No. 4250/5. Three *Chamber-Organs to be sold.
1852. Seidel, Organ, 32. Organs … tuned either in the so-called *chamber-pitch … or in the choir-pitch, which was a whole tone higher.
1709. Steele & Addison, Tatler, No. 101, ¶ 1. A Lawyer who leaves the Bar for *Chamber-Practice.
c. 1765. Burke, Popery Laws, Wks. IX. 336. Chamber practice, and even private conveyancing … are prohibited to them.
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, XIV. 287. Thou hast a *chamber-stead, Which Vulcan … contriv’d with all fit secrecy. Ibid. (1615), Odyss., XXIII. 270. The bed That stands within our bridal chamber-sted.
1585. J. Higins, Junius’ Nomenclator, 230/2 (N.). A *chamber stoole for easement.
1608. Withals, Dict., 205/1 (N.). A Chamberstoole or pot Lasanum, & scaphium.
1868. M. Pattison, Academ. Org., 254. In the study of the classics … *chamber-study must always be … superior to any courses of … lectures.
1542. Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 212 b. Lasanum is greke and latin for … a *chaumbre-vessel.
1509. Hawes, Past. Pleas., XXXI. iv. What he can do Of *chambre werke.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel. (1624), 69.
1884. N. Y. Herald, 27 Oct., 7/2. Girl to do chamber work and waiting.
