The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance

And matters being advanced one stage further in another case, the following inquiry is sent to the Postal headquarters:-- "Will you please inform me if there is to be a baby show this year at Woolwich; if so, where it is to be holden, and what day." Nor is the purely social element lost sight of in the letters reaching St Martin's-le-Grand, unconnected with Post-office business, as the two specimens hereafter show:-- "UNITED STATES. "I have always had a great desire to visit your country, but as I probly never shall, I thought I would write. "I am a young lady attending the High School at ----, a pictorest town bordering on the ---- river. Our country seat is four miles and a half west of ----. My father is a rich gentleman farmer. "We have four horses, 30 or 35 head of cattle, 15 or 20 pigs, and a large henery. We have about 250 acres of land, so of course we have to keep a house full of servants. "We are quite well off in worldly goods, but should be better off if you could inform me about that fortune I expect from a great-uncle, great-aunt, or somebody. It is about half a million either on my father's or mother's side. If you would be so kind as to write and inform me, I would be a thousand times obliged. If you would assist me in getting it I will reward you handsomely. Their name is ----. They used to be very fond of me when I was a crowing infant in my mother's arms. It is a very pretty country out hear, wide rolling prairies enter spersed with fine forests. There is a stream of water running through our land, a stream so softly and peasfully wild that it looks as if nature had onely just made it and laid down her pencil and smiled.