Advice for Victorian Lads

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Last week my YouTube suggestions included a link regarding a subject that I just mentioned in passing to my wife and which she did not pass on in any form.

They are watching and listening to everything. :fearful:

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Mar 13, 1886

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“Writers” is royal navy terminology for administrators, and Spring Gardens is a street in London that’s right next to Admiralty Arch, so it looks like the letter-writer was asking how to get a career in admin for the Navy.

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Thanks for the explanation. A lot of the questions from the teenage readers seem to be about future careers, and the military or the colonial administration feature prominently.

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