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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
·
James Wilson Hyde
217
During
a
snowstorm
which
occurred
a
year
or
two
ago,
a
London
firm
put
up
for
posting,
among
others,
a
letter
to
a
Glasgow
firm
containing
a
cheque
for
a
sum
little
short
of
L1000.
The
cheque
not
reaching
its
destination
in
due
course,
payment
was
stopped
at
the
bank,
and
notwithstanding
that
every
inquiry
was
made,
nothing
was
heard
of
the
letter
at
the
time.
Eventually,
however,
the
cheque
was
brought
to
the
firm
who
had
drawn
it,
together
with
the
letter,
by
a
police-inspector,
who
had
found
the
letter
adhering
to
a
block
of
ice
floating
in
the
Thames
off
Deptford.
The
supposition
is,
that
when
the
letters
of
the
day
were
being
carried
to
the
Lombard
Street
Post-office,
this
letter
was
dropped
in
the
street,
that
it
was
carted
off
in
the
snow
to
the
Thames,
and
there,
after
a
week's
immersion
in
the
river,
got
affixed
to
the
block
of
ice,
as
already
stated.
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