poste restante

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Leisurely two-sided correspondences were difficult to sustain, with Chatwin roving from one poste restante to the next.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2011

I shall be at Munich on Friday, and have written to Hallam Tennyson, poste restante; but I hope to waylay them at the station.

From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron

I had told Grell that if it became necessary to write me under cover, he might do so at the poste restante, Folkestone.

From The Grell Mystery by Froest, Frank

Si vous voulez donc me dire quelque chose de vous, et que ma lettre ne vous a point d�plu, vous pouvez addresser votre r�ponse � Bruxelles, poste restante.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 100, September 27, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Do not answer this to London, but to the poste restante, Frankfurt.

From Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians by Rowlands, Walter