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Mar. 5th, 2009 @ 10:43 pm 
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From 1740, or thereabouts, a letter to the Guardian:
Most Venerable NESTOR,
I Am now three and twenty, and in the utmost Perplexity how to behave my self towards a Gentleman, whom my Father has admitted to visit me, as a Lover. I plainly perceive my Father designs to take Advantage of his Passion towards me, and require Terms of him which will make him fly off. I have Orders to be cold to him in all my Behaviour ; but if you insert this Letter in the Guardian, he will know that Distance is constrained. I love him better than Life, am satisfied with the Offer he has made, and desire him to stick to it, that he may not hereafter think he has purchased me too dear. My Mother knows I love him, so that my Father must comply.
Your thankful Ward,
Susanna ______
P.S. I give my Service to him, and desire the Settlement may be such, as shows I have my Thoughts fixed upon my Happiness in being his Wife, rather than his Widow.
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That's lovely. Does the Guardian also have their archives online??
Not to my knowledge, alas. That item was pulled from an 18th-century original bound archive, out of my university's Rares collection. Odds are it's also a hideously expensive object.
If you live near a decent university or state library and really want to look at old popular texts (which, why wouldn't you? They're awesome), it's quite possible they'll have microforms of at least some major papers. (More likely to be an American bias, though; in much the same way I doubt many American institutions have the extensive archives of the Canberra Times and the Sydney Morning Herald that UWA has, I expect they'll have excellent archives of American papers. But they might also have major international papers.)
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