DAILY MAIL IN MID OCEAN.
On the first night out, just as my vis-a-vis at table was sitting down to dinner in the saloon of the City of New York, a steward stepped up to him and handed him a letter, saying, “With the captain’s compliments, sir.” Every night this performance was repeated. Sometimes the captain himself presented the letter. It was mysterious and interesting. The gentleman who received the letter seemed to be greatly astonished when it came to him on the first
occasion, but afterwards he merely showed signs of enjoyment in reading its contents. He was a very delightful man and a great favourite at our table, but though everybody was dying to know where the letters came from, nobody had enough impudence to ask him. But on the day before we reached NVw York I happened to be standing on the companionway with this gentleman when the captain presented the letter, and the former said, as he tore open the envelope, “ Queer idea of my wife’s isn’t it 1 She sent the captain seven letters addressed to me, and asked him to deliver one to me every evening before dinner. She thought I would be glad to hear from her every day, and I tell you it has been one of the pleas jnte&t events of the voyage, this mail delivery in midocean.
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Western Star, Issue 1349, 27 April 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)
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