Amanuenses of sorts are one thing, ladies with private information about the peerage another.
"The Story of Louie"
Oliver Onions
As invitations are now directed by the hundreds by hired Amanuenses, a lady should carefully revise her list, in order that no names of persons deceased may be written on her cards; but the members of the family who remain, and who have suffered a loss, should be carefully remembered, and should not be pained by seeing the name of one who has departed included in the invitations or wedding-cards.
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
He was nearly blind, and had to teach himself Spanish and look up authorities through the help of others and to write with a noctograph or by Amanuenses.
"Brief History of English and American Literature"
Henry A. Beers