From the Richmond Dispatch, 4/9/1863, p. 2, c. 3
SPECIAL NOTICE - SPOTSWOOD HOTEL, CORNER OF MAIN AND 8TH STREETS, RICHMOND, VA. – A report has obtained extensive circulation to the effect that this Hotel had been, or was about to be, closed. The proprietor takes occasion to contradict this as entirely unauthorized, and to say that, under all circumstances, everything within reach will be done to insure comfort to his guests.
ap 9-3t* THEODORE W HOENNIGER