1841                Address Unknown, Boston, Massachusetts.

1841 November 27.  Daily Evening Transcript.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  November 27, 1841, Vol. XII, No. 3479, P. 2.

O. K. not O. K.—A singular mistake occurred in this city on Tuesday last, which goes to prove that we should not always trust to outward appearances.  The ship Saracen, Capt. Oliver Keating, sailed from this port that day for Manilla and Canton.  When the ship was ready to start the Captain sent a cartman to the Pearl Street House, where he had been boarding, for his baggage.

The cartman accordingly went to Capt. K.’s room and took his things, which were all packed up, and in coming out of the room he saw in the entry, near the door, two boxes marked O. K. the initials of the Captain’s name, (Oliver Keating) and supposing they belonged to him, and that it was Oll Korrect, he took the boxes, carried them down and put them on board the ship with the Captain’s baggage, and the vessel immediately afterwards went to sea.  An hour or two after she had sailed, it was discovered that the boxes did not belong to the Captain, but to another gentleman who was stopping at the Pearl Street House, and that the contained a complete set of Daguerreotype apparatus which the owner was about to put in operation in this city.  It was, however, too late to correct the mistake, and the boxes Daguerreotype apparatus and all, are now on their way to Manilla

1841 December 1.  Norwich Courier.  (Norwich, Connecticut.)  December 1, 1841, Vol. XX, No. 88, Whole No. 2275, P. 3.

O. K. not O. K.—A singular mistake occurred in this city on Tuesday last, which goes to prove that we should not always trust to outward appearances.  The ship Saracen, Capt. Oliver Keating, sailed from this port that day for Manilla and Canton.  When the ship was ready to start the Captain sent a cartman to the Pearl street House, where he had been boarding, for his baggage.

The cartman accordingly went to Capt. K.’s room and took his things, which were all packed up, and in coming out of the room he saw in the entry, near the door, two boxes marked O. K. the initials of the Captain’s name, (Oliver Keating) and supposing they belonged to him, and that it was Oll Korrect, he took the boxes, carried them down and put them on board the ship with the Captain’s baggage, and the vessel immediately afterwards went to sea.  An hour or two after she had sailed, it was discovered that the boxes did not belong to the Captain, but to another gentleman who was stopping at the Pearl Street House, and that the contained a complete set of Daguerreotype apparatus which the owner was about to put in operation in this city.  It was, however, too late to correct the mistake, and the boxes Daguerreotype apparatus and all, are now on their way to Manilla.—Boston Transcript.