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`` Kindly allow me to call attention to the fact that in my recent order of the 18th inst. , the specifications distinctly stated ` love-letters ' , and _ not _ any correspondence whatsoever , -- no matter how exhilarating from either a ` Gray-Plush Squirrel ' or a ` Banda Sea Pirate ' as evidenced by enclosed photograph which I am hereby returning . Please refund money at once or forward me without delay a consistent photograph of a ` special edition de luxe ' girl . `` Very truly yours . '' The letter was mailed by the janitor long before noon . Even as late as eleven o'clock that night Stanton was still hopefully expecting an answer . Nor was he altogether disappointed . Just before midnight a messenger boy appeared with a fair-sized manilla envelope , quite stiff and important looking .