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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
·
James Wilson Hyde
255
"UNITED
STATES.
"Will
you
do
me
the
kind
favour,
as
you
are
the
Postmaster
and
able
to
know,
as
I
judge
of.
It
is
this,
give
to
me
the
full
name
and
address
of
any
'Mac----'
that
you
know
of
in
England,
or
in
Scotland,
or
Ireland,
or
Wales,
or
in
India,
or
at
or
in
any
other
country
that
you
may
know
of,
with
their
full
names
and
correct
address,
so
that
I
can
write
to
them
myself.
"If
you
have
any
list,
or
book,
or
pamphlet,
with
the
names
of
parties
who
have
died,
and
left
money
or
land
to
their
heirs
at
law,
as
I
want
such
information,"
&c.
A
farmer
in
the
country
wants
a
postmaster
to
act
as
go-between
in
a
little
business
matter,
and
pens
him
a
few
lines
to
the
following
effect:--
"John
----
acting
as
Farmer
here
would
be
very
much
obliged
to
the
postmaster
if
he
would
be
so
good
as
to
name
a
suitable
party
at
----
to
whom
he
might
sell
a
30
stone
pig
of
good
quality
well--for
he
understands
it
is
the
best
place
to
sell.
The
pig
is
now
quite
ready
for
killing."
A
sharp
fellow
in
Tennessee,
anxious
to
become
rich
by
a
short
cut,
wants
an
instrument
to
hunt
gold
and
silver,
and
forthwith
applies
to
the
Post-office:--
"I
want
you
to
do
me
a
kines,
to
hand
this
(letter)
to
some
good
watch
maker
and
tell
him
to
see
if
I
can
by
a
instrument
to
tell
where
gold
or
silver
is
in
the
ground
or
if
there
is
a
instrument
maid
to
find
mettel--gold
or
silver--that
are
in
the
ground.
If
it
will
attrack
it.
A
instrument
for
that
perpos.
I
understand
there
are
sutch
a
thing
made.
If
so,
be
pleas
tell
me
where
I
can
by
one
and
what
it
will
cost
me.
It
can
be
sent
to
New
York
to
----
where
I
can
get
it.
I
want
to
get
a
instrument
to
hunt
gold
&
silver.
You
will
pleas
write
to
me
as
I
think
if
there
are
sutch
a
thing
maid
I
could
get
one
in
your
country.
I
send
you
a
stamp."
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