CURIOUS
EPISTLE.—Strange
matters are sent to us for publication, but the writer of
the following letter has such a very peculiar notion of the
uses of a newspaper, that we cannot refrain from submitting
it to our readers. We have suppressed only the names of the
fair parties concerned. The external appearance of the
communication was in good keeping with the interior—all
over grease, sealed with very brown wax, and impressed with
a thimble top:—
"Desborough Aug 4
"Sir this is to Inform you that I Temperance — has been falsed Swor to by Sarah — of Desborough Gasit and She his
A bittical of A Liyer and to Put it in your Mercury this
week and what hels you think proper." —Northampton
Mercury
West Kent Guardian: Saturday 14 August 1841
Note: "Temperance" seems likely to have been
Temperance
Robinson, nee Coe, wife of Thomas Robinson.