In 1898 the ordinary, middle-class Englishman W. Reginald Bray (1879-1939) bought a copy of the Post Office Guide and began to study the regulations published quarterly by the British postal authorities. Upon discovering that the smallest item one could post was a bee and the largest an elephant, he began sending items like a turnip, a bowler hat, a bicycle pump, shirt cuffs, seaweed, a clothes brush and a rabbit's skull (unwrapped) through the mail. Eventually he posted his Irish terrier and himself (not together), earning him the name "The Human Letter."
Princeton Architectural Press is putting this book out next month.
(Thanks to J.F. for this)
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