Here is a personal ad that ran on the first page of the London Times in early 1961. I came across this while doing research for my recent novel. I wonder if he got any replies.
An authentic plea to escape the rat-race? Or as someone suggested to me, was he looking for an older well-off dame or fellow to make his life cushy?
Joel E. Turner - Fiction and Other Things 
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I’d like to think that I might have placed such an ad myself. Of course some of it doesn’t apply to me, like honest, conscientious. Hmm, I mean at age 23 although I was 11 when the ad was placed. I almost read chiefly continental as chiefly continent. Sup T
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I had a romantic view of it intially, then concluded it was someone looking for a sugar-daddy
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I love this. I could see my post-graduation self doing something similar. “Well read 23 year old, tired of the basements of libraries. Looking to take my knowledge of Victorian culture and wilderness skills out into the world. Seeking cabin caretaker and governess positions.”
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It was Andrew Loog Oldham who suggested it was someone looking for a sugar daddy. Someday get a short sub to the London Times archives – the stuff you see that you aren’t looking for is tremendous.
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