Fair Enough

Posted in Society by Greg Ross on December 7th, 2009

A lady wrote to her lover, begging him to send her some money. She added, by way of postcript, ‘I am so ashamed of the request I have made in this letter, that I sent after the postman to get it back; but the servant could not overtake him.’

The Poetry and Varieties of Berrow’s Worcester Journal for 1828