I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer: Letters on Love and Marriage from the World's First Personal Advice Column and fulfill their destiny --

and fulfill their destiny -- on their own terms

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The first nonfiction book from award-winning poet Ross Gay is a record of the small joys we often overlook in our busy lives

and the only clues as to why are whispers of underwater shadows and warnings to never answer the knocks at night

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I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer: Letters on Love and Marriage from the World's First Personal Advice Column and fulfill their destiny --A fascinating collection of questions and answers about courtship, marriage, love, and sex from a seventeenth century periodical The Athenian Mercury a one page, two sided periodical published in 1690s London included the world's first personal advice column. Acclaimed historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist Mary Beth Norton's "I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer" is a remarkable collection of questions and answers drawn from this groundbreaking