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Updated: June 13, 2025
Cockayne said; "one of those 'awful sacrifices' and bankrupt stock sales, like those we see in London, and the bills of which are thrown into the letter-box day after day."
The erection of a letter-box in the Street of a small place of which 80 per cent of the readers have never so much as heard. ... I begin to understand why the cultured Tarentines do not read these journals. By far the best part of all such papers is the richly-tinted personal column, wherein lovers communicate with each other, or endeavour to do so.
How could I go back to fan that fatal spark with my cold breath? No, no, that unexpected kiss had to be paid for at its full price. At the first letter-box I came to I stopped and reaching into my breast-pocket I took out the letter it was as if I were plucking out my very heart and dropped it through the slit. Then I went straight on board.
The note was slipped into the letter-box in the hall, as Elma went down to dinner that night, lovely to behold in the "rucked gown," and the perusal of it next morning was one of the pleasantest episodes which Cornelia had known since her arrival.
"'That will do, said Lyle, eagerly. 'Thank you, thank you very much. "He ran back into the hall, and, pulling out his penknife, began to pick at the lock of the letter-box. "'I have been supremely careless, he said, in great excitement. 'Twice before when people I wanted had flown from a house I have been able to follow them by putting a guard over their mailbox.
Lady Bassett remonstrated, but he told her to be quiet; "for," said he, "I have a smattering of medicine, as well as of law and of human nature. Sir Charles must correspond with you. Probably he has already written you six letters complaining of this monstrous act a sane man incarcerated. Well, that class of letter goes into a letter-box in the hall of an asylum, but it never reaches its address.
Suddenly a thought occurred to Dexter as he ran his eye over the handsome cushions of the well-varnished boat. "Bob!" he said. There was no answer. "Bob, did you take that parcel and drop it in Sir James's letter-box!" "What parcel!" said Bob sourly. "That one I threw over to you last night." "Oh! that one as fell in the water?" "Yes: did you take it?" "Why, didn't you tell me to!"
But generally the travellers are peaceable enough. I've got a box in the front door like a letter-box, with a slit outside for them to drop change into, and the pole rope pulls down through the window-frame. There ain't so much travel by night as there used to be, and a body learns to be wakeful anyhow if they've ever had the care of sick old people."
Hill when editing the Inspector. It was sold in 1804, the notice of the sale in the Annual Register stating that "The admirable gilt lion's head letter-box, which was formerly at Button's coffee-house, and in which the valuable original copy of the Guardian was received, was yesterday knocked down at the Shakespeare-tavern, Cove & Garden, to Mr. Richardson, for seventeen pounds ten shillings."
There was the oldfaced little girl who delivered milk; there was the postman who emptied into his canvas receptacle, the blue letter-box affixed to the opposite wall; the student with the gashed face and red cap, who lived a couple of doors further down, and always whistled the same tune; the big Newfoundland dog that stalked majestically at his side, and answered to the name of Tasso she knew them all.
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