Mystery of the Post reveals a forty year letter romance
Mr John H Hallett describes a long odd tale from the Dead Letter Office about Mary Russell who visited weekly for a missing letter addressed to Miss Russell. For decades she and a silent correspondent kept up a ritual of drop letters and money sent with no name, until a final Aug 7 and Oct 6 note with a Dec 8 warning.
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John H. Hallett
Post Office
Park
Mary Russell
Sis Dove
Deyent
Matameciatic
Recipes and a tale of marriage in a post with kitchen hints
The page blends cooking notes for milk and butter breads and desserts with a veal dish and a sponge like sugar essence, plus a rice and sago pudding method. It also recounts a Turkey shipment to Washington for a Rhode Island delegation and ends with an odd wedding bill scene involving a Justice of the Peace and a child witness.
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Lucan Caxxi
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Burnside
Washington
Rhode Island
Coness
Theeneral
United States
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