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What is the historical term for a person who writes letters for someone who is illiterate?
Asked by give_seek (1439)
July 14th, 2011
I remember seeing this term once. It wasn’t scribe, letter writer, dictator, translator, ghost writer, secretary, assistant or anything that sounds relatively modern.
This term came up during research I was doing on the 18th & 19th centuries.
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