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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
262
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Uncle
John
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Hopposite
the
Church
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London.
Hingland
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It
would
certainly
have
been
a
wonderful
triumph
of
skill
to
have
put
this
letter
in
a
fair
way
for
delivery:
for
once
the
blind
officer
would
acknowledge
himself
beaten;
and
then
the
Dead
Letter
Officers
would
endeavour
to
find
"Uncle
John's"
relative,
intimating
to
the
said
relative
that
greater
explicitness
is
needed
if
"Uncle
John"
must
be
found.
But
they
manage
better
with
the
next
letter
in
the
batch.
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Coneyach
lunentick
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a
siliam
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is
part
of
the
address
of
a
letter
which
the
sorter
no
doubt
threw
away
from
him
with
some
impatience.
The
blind
officer,
however,
reads
it
instantly,
strikes
his
pen,
perhaps,
through
the
address,
and
writes
on
the
envelope,
"Colney
Hatch
Lunatic
Asylum,"
and
passes
it
out
for
delivery.
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Obern
yenen
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is
seen
in
an
instant
to
be
meant
for
"Holborn
Union."
"Isle
of
Wight"
is,
in
like
manner,
written
on
a
letter
improperly
addressed
as
follows:--
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Ann
M----
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Oileywhite
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Amshire
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The
probability
is
that
the
last-mentioned
letter
will
come
back
to
the
Dead
Letter-Office,
on
account
of
no
town
being
given
in
the
address;
still,
the
usual
course
is
to
send
it
out
to
the
local
district
designated,
there
being
always
the
possibility
that
certain
individuals
may
be
locally
known.
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