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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
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James Wilson Hyde
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In
the
Postmaster-General's
report
for
1881,
further
mention
was
made
of
the
finding
of
the
note
in
the
Dead-letter
Office,
and
several
claims
again
reached
headquarters,
one
of
which
proved
to
be
so
far
good,
that,
when
the
facts
had
been
fully
investigated,
the
amount
was
paid
over
to
the
claimant.
It
appeared
that
the
person
whose
name
was
endorsed
on
the
note
received
it
in
part
payment
of
a
cheque
cashed
by
him
in
1872,
when
he
was
bought
out
of
the
business
in
which
he
had
till
then
been
a
partner.
Two
years
afterwards--viz.,
in
1874--he
died,
and
his
widow
was
unaware
at
the
time
that
the
note
had
been
lost.
From
circumstances
which
this
lady
was
able
to
prove,
however,
there
seemed
to
be
every
reason
to
believe
that
her
husband
(whose
practice
it
was
to
endorse
notes
when
he
had
received
them)
had
by
some
means
lost
the
note,
or
that
it
had
been
carelessly
left
by
him
in
some
old
book
or
other
papers
which
were
sold
as
waste-paper
after
her
husband's
death;
and
thus
the
Post-office
was
made
the
means
of
restoring
a
considerable
sum
of
money
to
the
rightful
owner,
while
the
person
who
had
without
title
possessed
it
in
the
interval
dared
not
claim
it.
"A
letter
said
to
have
been
posted
by
a
person
at
Fochabers,
enclosing
a
letter
of
credit
for
L50,
was
supposed
to
have
been
appropriated
by
an
officer
of
the
Post-office;
but
on
inquiry
it
was
ascertained
that,
instead
of
posting
the
letter
himself,
as
he
asserted,
the
writer
had
intrusted
it
to
a
servant,
who
had
destroyed
the
letter,
and
had
attempted
to
negotiate
the
order."
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