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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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The
mails
were
rescued
from
their
ocean
bed
and
brought
to
London,
where
every
effort
that
skill
could
devise
was
made
to
restore
them
to
their
original
condition.
They
were
carefully
dried,
in
order
that
the
addresses
of
the
letters
and
newspapers
might
be
deciphered.
When
dried
it
was
requisite
that
they
should
be
handled
most
carefully
to
prevent
them
crumbling
to
pieces--so
much
so,
in
fact,
that
many
were
unfit
to
travel
out
of
London
without
being
tied
up
carefully,
gummed,
and
placed
in
new
envelopes,
and
re-addressed,
providing
that
the
old
address
could
by
any
means
be
read
or
obtained.
Notwithstanding
all
the
care
and
attention
bestowed,
a
great
number
of
letters
remained,
in
the
words
of
the
Post-Office
people,
"in
a
hopeless
state
of
pulp."
An
Australian
carte
de
visite,
which
arrived
with
the
rescued
mails
from
the
Colombo,
and
now
before
us,
may
have
been
a
gem
of
art
from
one
of
the
antipodean
"temples
of
the
sun,"
but
we
have
not
now
the
means
of
judging,
as
a
yellow
bit
of
paper,
with
an
indistinct
outline
upon
it,
is
all
that
remains.
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