Sir,
A little light may be shed, with advantage, upon the high-handed methods of the Passports Department at the Foreign Office. On the form provided for the purpose I described my face as 'intelligent'. Instead of finding this characterization entered, I have received a passport on which some official utterly unknown to me, has taken it upon himself to call my face 'oval'.
Yours very truly,
Bassett Digby
February 17th, 1915.
From The First Cuckoo: Letters to The Times since 1900 (1976)
A little light may be shed, with advantage, upon the high-handed methods of the Passports Department at the Foreign Office. On the form provided for the purpose I described my face as 'intelligent'. Instead of finding this characterization entered, I have received a passport on which some official utterly unknown to me, has taken it upon himself to call my face 'oval'.
Yours very truly,
Bassett Digby
February 17th, 1915.
From The First Cuckoo: Letters to The Times since 1900 (1976)