Dear Gentle Readers, Good grief! Background checks, letters of recommendation, applications. Even Regency love matches felt like business. I have excerpted the saga of Polly and her Mr. Smith in letters from The London Universal Letter-Writer, Or Whole Art of Polite Correspondence published in 1809. Don’t worry, after much paperwork, there is a happily-ever-after. —Your … Continue reading "Persuading Papa – Regency Love in Letters from 1809"