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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
·
James Wilson Hyde
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As
might
readily
be
supposed,
strange
communications
are
often
received
on
savings-bank
business--some
quaint
and
curious,
though
written
quite
seriously,
while
others
are
evidently
written
with
the
intention
of
making
fun;
yet
another
class
deriving
their
peculiarities
from
a
too
common
cause--want
of
education.
A
few
of
such
specimens
are
given
as
follows:--
A
depositor
being
asked
to
furnish
particulars
of
his
account,
the
reply
received
from
some
one
who
had
opened
the
letter
on
his
behalf
was
to
this
effect:--"He
is
a
tall
man,
deeply
marked
with
smallpox,
has
one
eye,
wears
a
billycock,
and
keeps
a
pea-booth
at
Lincoln
Fair,"--a
description
ample
enough,
and
one
that
would
rejoice
the
heart
of
a
detective.
The
envelopes
supplied
to
depositors,
in
which
they
send
their
books
to
headquarters,
have
within
the
flap
a
space
provided
to
receive
the
depositor's
address,
and
the
request
is
printed
underneath--"State
here
whether
the
above
address
is
permanent."
This
request
has
called
forth
such
rejoinders
as
these--"Here
we
have
no
continuing
city,"
"This
is
not
our
rest,"
"Heaven
is
our
home,"
"Yes,
D.
V."
In
one
case
the
reply
was
"No,
D.
V.,
for
the
place
is
beastly
damp
and
unhealthy;"
while
another
depositor,
being
floored
by
the
wording
of
the
inquiry,
wrote--"Doant
know
what
permanent
is"!
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