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Her Majesty's Mails
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William Lewins
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FOOTNOTES:
[196]
In
this
category
we
suppose
the
reviewer
placed
the
following
letter
addressed
to
the
Secretary
of
the
Post-Office,
from
Lord
Cranworth
when
Lord
Chancellor.
We
adduce
it
here,
on
the
contrary,
as
a
specimen
of
a
handsome
and
manly
apology:
"Sir,--Complaints
were
made
early
last
month,
that
a
letter
posted
by
Mr.
Anderson,
of
Lincoln's
Inn,
and
addressed
to
me,
had
never
reached
its
destination....
You
caused
inquiry
to
be
made....
I
feel
it
a
duty
to
you,
Sir,
and
the
Post-Office
authorities,
to
say
that
I
have
just
found
the
missing
letter,
which
has
been
accidentally
buried
under
a
heap
of
other
papers.
I
have
only
to
regret
the
trouble
which
my
oversight
thus
caused,
and
to
take
the
earliest
opportunity
of
absolving
all
persons,
except
myself,
of
blame
in
the
matter.
I
have,
&c.
&c.
CRANWORTH."
Somewhat
similar
to
the
above
case,
occurring
only
last
year,
we
may
refer
to
the
circumstance,
probably
in
the
memory
of
most
of
our
readers,
when,
among
a
batch
of
complainants
whose
letters
The
Times
admitted
to
its
columns,
was
one
from
the
late
Mr.
John
Gough
Nicholls,
the
eminent
littérateur,
who
grieved
bitterly
that
a
letter
sent
through
the
post
to
him
had
not
arrived
at
his
address.
From
a
manly
apology
which
he
made
to
the
Post-Office
authorities
a
few
days
afterwards,
also
given
in
The
Times,
it
appeared
that
the
reason
why
he
never
received
the
letter
was,
that
it
had
not
been
sent
through
the
Post-Office,
as
it
ought
to
have
been,
but
was
delivered
by
a
private
messenger
at
another
house
in
the
street.
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