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Прошлой неделей френдленту лихорадило. То один, то другой френд катался со смеху, прикалываясь над "Советами невесты", якобы написанными Рут Смитерс, 
возлюбленной супругой преподобного Л.Д.Смитерса.
У меня сразу закралочь сомнение, что это - пародия. Уж больно там все вымучено.
Я задалсы вопросом и погуглил немного. Оказалось, тексту на русском уже четыре года, на английском же он еще старше, но уж никак до 1894 голда не доходит.

И вот что я раскопал. Оригинал письма сейчас уже недоступен, хотя через гугловский кеш можно еще попробовать

Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 10:00:45 +0000
From: Dennis Lien <Dennis.K.Lien-1@tc.umn.edu>
To: Carolyn Caywood <ccaywood@leo.vsla.edu>
Cc: stumpers-list@crf.cuis.edu
Subject: %% bogus Victorian bridal advice


At 08:04 PM 5/2/97 -0400, you wrote:
>The "Advice to a Young Bride" by Ruth Smythers is already in the
>Stumpers archive:
>
>Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 01:46:38 -0400
>From: wheitz@intrstar.net (Warren Heitzenrater)
>To: STUMPERS-L@CRF.CUIS.EDU
>Subject: %..and a whore in the bedroom...
>
>Warren had the same citation. My question would be where did either
>copy actually come from? left in the photocopier? reprinted in a
>newsletter? Or, does someone actually have the Fall 1884 issue
>of whatever it was just lying around?
>--
>Carolyn Caywood ccaywood@leo.vsla.edu or carolyn@norfolk.infi.net
>Bayside Area Library voice:757-460-7519
>936 Independence Blvd. VA Beach, VA 23455 FAX:757-464-6741
>Edward III's DISCLAIMER: "Honi soit qui mal y pense"
>
>



According to WorldCat and RLIN searches, the only holding library for
the Madison Institute Newsletter is the Library of Congress. The MI
was/is based in Seattle, and the Spring 1984 issue was v.4 no.1, so
the Fall 1984 issue ("1884" is surely an error) would likely have
been v.4 no.3. The records give no hint as to what the Madison
Institute was/is or did/does, other than apparently publishing
blatantly obvious hoaxes.


Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien@tc.umn.edu

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