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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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To
my
sister
Bridget,
or
else
to
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my
brother
Tim
Burke,
in
care
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of
the
Praste,
who
lives
in
the
parish
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of
Balcumbury
in
Cork,
or
if
not
to
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some
dacent
neighbour
in
Ireland.
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The
English
poor
oftener,
as
we
have
already
seen,
show
their
unbounded
confidence
in
the
sagacity
of
the
officers
of
the
Post-Office
by
leaving
out
some
essential
part
of
the
address
of
a
letter,
but
very
seldom
writing
too
much.
We
once
saw
a
letter
addressed
as
follows:--"Mary
H----,
a
tall
woman
with
two
children,"
and
giving
the
name
of
a
large
town
in
the
West
of
England.
The
Scotch
people,
as
a
rule,
attain
the
golden
mean,
and
exhibit
the
greatest
care
in
such
matters.
Nor
can
we
wonder
at
this.
The
poorer
classes
are
certainly
better
educated,
and
whilst
seldom
profuse
on
their
letters,
they
are
cautious
enough
not
to
leave
anything
of
consequence
unwritten.
The
statistics
of
the
Dead
Letter
Offices
of
the
three
countries
confirm,
to
some
considerable
extent,
our
rough
generalizations.
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