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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
·
James Wilson Hyde
274
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The
names
are
given
from
memory.
Meanwhile
Mrs
Parlane
had
been
suffering
intense
anxiety
at
not
receiving
the
promised
telegram,
and
being
unable
longer
to
endure
the
suspense
in
which
she
found
herself,
she
likewise
started
for
London
the
same
evening.
Strange
as
it
may
appear,
both
Mrs
Parlane
and
Mrs
M'Farlane
travelled
to
London
not
only
by
the
same
train,
but
in
the
same
compartment;
and
it
was
by
a
comparison
of
notes
that
the
telegram
intended
for
the
one
was
discovered
to
have
got
into
the
hands
of
the
other.
The
string
of
coincidences
in
this
matter
is
exceedingly
singular--viz.,
that
two
persons
of
similar
names
should
reside
at
the
same
number
in
neighbouring
streets;
that
the
husbands
of
both
should
be
in
London
at
the
same
time;
that
the
two
wives
should
travel
to
London
in
the
same
train;
and
that
they
should
find
themselves
companions
in
the
same
compartment.
Identity
in
names
and
addresses
in
all
particulars
sometimes
gives
rise
to
trouble
and
inconvenience.
Through
the
misdelivery
of
a
savings-bank
acknowledgment,
it
was
brought
to
light
that
in
a
suburban
district
of
London,
where
there
were
two
terraces
bearing
exactly
the
same
designation,
there
were
residing,
at
the
same
number
in
each,
two
persons
having,
not
only
the
same
surname,
but
the
same
Christian
name.
But
even
more
curious
are
the
following
facts
in
the
matter
of
similar
names
and
addresses,
though
in
this
instance
nothing
of
ill-consequence
has
yet
arisen
beyond
the
occasional
misdelivery
of
a
letter.
In
Edinburgh
at
the
present
time
(1885),
there
resides
at
5
St
Andrew's
Terrace
a
Mr
James
Gibson,
and,
immediately
opposite,
at
5
St
Andrew's
Place,
another
Mr
James
Gibson.
It
happens,
also,
that
a
Mr
John
Gibson
is
to
be
found
at
5
St
Andrew
Square.
Hence
we
have
this
very
singular
series
of
almost
identical
addresses,
the
persons
concerned
being
all
different,
and,
so
far
as
we
are
aware,
unacquainted
with
each
other:--
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