The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance

"SIR,--I am sorry to be obliged to trouble you again respecting the wires opposite my house at ----. You promised in your favour of ---- that the wires should be removed within a month from that date, a great amount of labour having to be gone through. I was not surprised that six months were required for their removal instead of one, and therefore bore patiently with the delay, although my eyesight, and indeed every one's in the house, suffered most severely; but why, when at last eight were removed, should one be allowed to remain? Since the eight have gone, I have been able to sit in my own house without being in as excruciating pain as formerly; but still I am pained, and particularly between the hours of four and seven in the morning. If one wire affects me so much, imagine my sufferings when nine were working! Such being the case, will you kindly cause the remaining wire either to be removed or encased in the vulcanized tube, so as to contract the current.--Thanking you for your kindness hitherto, and hoping you will add this favour to the rest, I am," &c.