The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance

Similar cases are as follows, but we are unable to say whether the addresses given served their intended purpose:-- Mr ----. Travelling Band, one of the four playing in the street. Persha [Pershore], Worcestershire. Please to find him if possible. To E----, a cook as lived tempery with a Mrs L----, or some such a name, a shoemaker in Castle St. about No. ---- Hoburn in 1851; try to make this out. She is a Welsh person about 5 feet 1--stoutish. Lives in service some ware in London or naboured. London. This is for her that maks dresses for ladies, that livs at tother side of road to James Brocklip. Edensover, Chesterfield. This is for the young girl that wears spectacles, who minds two babies. 30 Sherriff St., Off Prince Edwin St., Liverpool. In two further instances the indications sufficed, and the letters were duly delivered. Thus-- To my sister Jean, Up the Canongate, Down a Close, Edinburgh. She has a wooden leg. And-- My dear Ant Sue as lives in the Cottage by the Wood near the New Forest. In this case the letter had to feel its way about for a day or two, but Ant Sue was found living in a cottage near Lyndhurst. Another letter was addressed thus:-- This letter is for Mrs ----. She lives in some part of Liverpool. From her father John ----, a tailor from ----; he would be thankful to some Postmaster in Liverpool if he would find her out. Unfortunately, in this instance the directions given failed to trace the person to whom it was sent, and it had to go to that abyss of "rejected addresses," the Dead-letter Office.