The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance

"i right to you and request of you sinsearly for to help me to find out my husband. i ham quite a stranger in London, only two months left Ireland. i can find know trace of my husband. Your the only gentleman that I know that can help me to find him. thears is letters goes to him to ---- in his name and thears is letters comes to him to the ---- Post-office for him. Sir you may be sure that i ham low in spirit in a strange contry without a friend. I hope you will be so kind as not to forget me. Sir, I would never find ---- for i would go astray, besides I have no money." "I right these fue lines to you to ask you if you would be so kind as to teel me if there his such a person living in england. She was living at Birmingham last Rtimmas--this his mi sister and brother-in-law--they hant in Birmingham now--let this letter go to every general post-office there is." Then come requests for information about property that may be supposed to have been left by relatives in this country to persons abroad--generally in America--in which the Postmaster-General is usually treated to an insight, more or less deep, into the family affairs or history of the writers, the rich relatives being as a rule faithfully remembered by the poor, while the recollections in the opposite direction would seem to exhibit features of a less enduring nature. Here are a few specimens:--