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@MisterSlang It might be cosmetics - specifically, rouge. Lots of references in Google Books, but here's one: https://t.co/oPaB37zIir

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@NSE_Latchmere That's Wimbledon. Scratching my head about the others, though!

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@oldscotbooks @rmason717 The 1936 History is next in line for digitization, so I'll send up the white smoke when it's done.

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@oldscotbooks @rmason717 The examples I've found are exclusively either in private correspondence or in the (very) local press, so with any kind of luck it shouldn't be a worry! Have you easy access to the 1983 edition of the WS Register btw?

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@oldscotbooks @rmason717 (There's an issue esp. in the C19 where local esp rural communities sometimes appear to have begun calling a highly-esteemed local solicitor a "Writer to the Signet" as a term of respect, but I think Rebecca's document is too early by far for this to be in play in any sense)

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@mf6060 @rmason717 ..it'll be interesting to see what others plump for, but my instinct would be to go for something like "(legal) clerk" to preserve the sense of professionalism-but-not-in-the-modern-sense. I don't think there's a direct, bullet-proof modern equivalent.

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@mf6060 @rmason717 Overall, it's tricky. Every modern idea of law agents/solicitors etc brings to mind a specific background/training/career, and the person in Rebecca's document might well have been the equivalent at a time when the professional experience was wildly different... (5)

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@MacqueenHector 1805...!

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Thankyou @cdundas - I don't do "without comment" so these by/including @kgbaston who I tag along with @gentleman_once and @leithlinkz

[Charles Dundas @cdundas]

Thank you @arina_WTS Thank you @Daphne_Vlastari

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Nominating @bookyvikki @Kennyf1283 @caronmlindsay @edinhist @shona_pw @DuncMcKay

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@MathewJLyons I've read nothing bar the old Penguin Guys & Dolls but was wondering about early Runyon editions. This stopped me in my tracks. Still to read any of the poems. This is the '30s British plainly struggling to come to terms -

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@MathewJLyons Pre-1914! When he was a serious poet. (And drinker. IIRC the brilliant Guys & Dolls stories date from his years of sobriety). A Second Act in an American Life!

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Mid-morning Newhaven

[Robert Law @robs001]

Take a look at THIS! An 'open book' and intimate insight into people's real lives and struggles. All on a disused roadside. Kudos to Math Roberts 👌