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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
·
James Wilson Hyde
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Similar
cases
are
as
follows,
but
we
are
unable
to
say
whether
the
addresses
given
served
their
intended
purpose:--
Mr
----.
Travelling
Band,
one
of
the
four
playing
in
the
street.
Persha
[Pershore],
Worcestershire.
Please
to
find
him
if
possible.
To
E----,
a
cook
as
lived
tempery
with
a
Mrs
L----,
or
some
such
a
name,
a
shoemaker
in
Castle
St.
about
No.
----
Hoburn
in
1851;
try
to
make
this
out.
She
is
a
Welsh
person
about
5
feet
1--stoutish.
Lives
in
service
some
ware
in
London
or
naboured.
London.
This
is
for
her
that
maks
dresses
for
ladies,
that
livs
at
tother
side
of
road
to
James
Brocklip.
Edensover,
Chesterfield.
This
is
for
the
young
girl
that
wears
spectacles,
who
minds
two
babies.
30
Sherriff
St.,
Off
Prince
Edwin
St.,
Liverpool.
In
two
further
instances
the
indications
sufficed,
and
the
letters
were
duly
delivered.
Thus--
To
my
sister
Jean,
Up
the
Canongate,
Down
a
Close,
Edinburgh.
She
has
a
wooden
leg.
And--
My
dear
Ant
Sue
as
lives
in
the
Cottage
by
the
Wood
near
the
New
Forest.
In
this
case
the
letter
had
to
feel
its
way
about
for
a
day
or
two,
but
Ant
Sue
was
found
living
in
a
cottage
near
Lyndhurst.
Another
letter
was
addressed
thus:--
This
letter
is
for
Mrs
----.
She
lives
in
some
part
of
Liverpool.
From
her
father
John
----,
a
tailor
from
----;
he
would
be
thankful
to
some
Postmaster
in
Liverpool
if
he
would
find
her
out.
Unfortunately,
in
this
instance
the
directions
given
failed
to
trace
the
person
to
whom
it
was
sent,
and
it
had
to
go
to
that
abyss
of
"rejected
addresses,"
the
Dead-letter
Office.
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