I found this terribly interesting as it was published in Hill's Manual of Social and Business Forms: A Guide to Correct Writing in 1882. Very neat look at the proper way to court a potential mate in a ladylike and gentlemanly fashion.
What makes it most interesting - above and beyond it's lovely use of wording and phrasing - is that despite it's age, the common sense guidelines within hold up very well to the test of time. Marrying for love not wealth; marrying at an age of maturity, not jumping into such an arrangement when not ready; that a woman doesn't need a man to give her life a meaning or to provide a home for her - all lessons which are still true today.
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