letterbox
A brass slot in the wall of the lowest house, facing the road to the gate, into which the refused post letters to those who went up. The box behind the slot has no door. It has never been full and it has never been emptied, and the town has stopped asking. Petitioners write here on the night before they try again; the landlady sells paper at the window beside it, and the chaplain says that what the pass answers, it answers in objects, not in letters. Custom: a letter is posted folded three time...
Located in The Last Pass.