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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
·
James Wilson Hyde
265
"SWITZERLAND.
"You
will
excuse
me
of
the
liberty
which
I
take
to
write
to
you,
but
as
I
know
nobody
in
your
town,
I
have
not
found
an
other
way
for
find
relations
with
some
body
honourable.
I
will
ask
you
if
you
can
procure
me
a
place
in
the
English
Colonies
or
plantations
as
teacher
in
an
institution
or
tutor
in
a
good
family.
I
am
old
of
22
years.
I
have
gone
a
good
course
of
study
in
the
college
and
gymnasium
in
----,
and
I
have
held
during
a
1-1/2
year
in
the
pensionnat
----
an
place
as
teacher
of
French
language
and
Mathematics.
I
can
give
you
some
good
Certificates;
I
speak
French,
German,
and
a
little
English.
I
should
wish
for
be
entirely
defrayed
of
the
charges
of
lodging,
nourishment,
&c.,
to
have
a
good
salary
and
the
voyage
paid.
These
are
my
conditions;
perhaps
will
you
found
something
for
satisfy
them.
I
will
give
you
a
commission
proportionably
to
the
importance
of
the
place.
I
hope
Sir
a
favorible
answer,
and
it
is
in
this
expectation
that
I
am,"
&c.
The
next
letter
is
of
another
kind,
and
is
not
a
bad
effort
for
a
schoolboy:--
"Not
having
received
the
live
bullfinch
mentioned
by
you
as
having
arrived
at
the
Returned-letter
office
two
days
ago,
having
been
posted
as
a
letter
contrary
to
the
regulations
of
the
postal
system,
I
now
write
to
ask
you
to
have
the
bird
fed
and
forwarded
at
once
to
----;
and
to
apply
for
all
fines
and
expenses
to
----.
If
this
is
not
done
and
I
do
not
receive
the
bird
before
the
end
of
the
week,
I
shall
write
to
the
Postmaster-General,
who
is
a
very
intimate
friend
of
my
father's,
and
ask
him
to
see
that
measures
are
taken
against
you
for
neglect.
This
is
not
an
idle
threat,
so
you
will
oblige
by
following
the
above
instructions."
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