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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
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James Wilson Hyde
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And
matters
being
advanced
one
stage
further
in
another
case,
the
following
inquiry
is
sent
to
the
Postal
headquarters:--
"Will
you
please
inform
me
if
there
is
to
be
a
baby
show
this
year
at
Woolwich;
if
so,
where
it
is
to
be
holden,
and
what
day."
Nor
is
the
purely
social
element
lost
sight
of
in
the
letters
reaching
St
Martin's-le-Grand,
unconnected
with
Post-office
business,
as
the
two
specimens
hereafter
show:--
"UNITED
STATES.
"I
have
always
had
a
great
desire
to
visit
your
country,
but
as
I
probly
never
shall,
I
thought
I
would
write.
"I
am
a
young
lady
attending
the
High
School
at
----,
a
pictorest
town
bordering
on
the
----
river.
Our
country
seat
is
four
miles
and
a
half
west
of
----.
My
father
is
a
rich
gentleman
farmer.
"We
have
four
horses,
30
or
35
head
of
cattle,
15
or
20
pigs,
and
a
large
henery.
We
have
about
250
acres
of
land,
so
of
course
we
have
to
keep
a
house
full
of
servants.
"We
are
quite
well
off
in
worldly
goods,
but
should
be
better
off
if
you
could
inform
me
about
that
fortune
I
expect
from
a
great-uncle,
great-aunt,
or
somebody.
It
is
about
half
a
million
either
on
my
father's
or
mother's
side.
If
you
would
be
so
kind
as
to
write
and
inform
me,
I
would
be
a
thousand
times
obliged.
If
you
would
assist
me
in
getting
it
I
will
reward
you
handsomely.
Their
name
is
----.
They
used
to
be
very
fond
of
me
when
I
was
a
crowing
infant
in
my
mother's
arms.
It
is
a
very
pretty
country
out
hear,
wide
rolling
prairies
enter
spersed
with
fine
forests.
There
is
a
stream
of
water
running
through
our
land,
a
stream
so
softly
and
peasfully
wild
that
it
looks
as
if
nature
had
onely
just
made
it
and
laid
down
her
pencil
and
smiled.
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