Bermudians have become the latest to recieve a chain letter calling on recipients to meet a dying child's wish.

The letter, which was originally sent out in 1989, called on recipients to send Craig Shergold, a seven-year-old boy who was dying of cancer, a get well card because his ambition was to be included in the Guinness Book of Records by having the most cards sent to him.

The latest edition of the letter asks recipients to send seven-year-old Craig John a complimentary slip so he can meet his ambition of being in the Guinness Book of Records.

Both letters asked to be sent on to ten more people.

And according to the letters, Craig Shergold and Craig John live at the same address in Carshallton, Surrey.

The truth of the matter is that Craig Shergold/John is now 19-years-old -- he was almost ten when the appeal first went out.

On March 23, 1991, he faced the media with his mother and millionaire John Kluge -- who paid for the operation which cured him -- and asked that no more cards be sent.

More than a hundred million get well cards had arrived and business cards and complimentary slips have followed them.

A copy of a chain letter from Craig John calling for complimentary slips to be sent to him in Surrey ended up at The Royal Gazette this week.

An end note states: "As time of the essence, I trust you will be good enough to adhere to this requests as soon as possible.'' But John has recovered, grown-up and moved to a new address. His parents have repeatedly appealed for people to stop sending letters, compliment slips and business cards but they still receive about five sacks of mail every day.

And the category is now closed in the Guinness Book of Records.

The letter which found its way to The Royal Gazette came via desks in Liverpool, Shipley, Portsmouth, London, Grand Cayman, Tortola and Montserrat over the last two years.

In Bermuda, Cabinet Secretary Leopold Mills was the first recipient on July 13.

Other local business people who mailed on copies of the chain letter include Sonesta Beach Resort human resources director Karen Dill, lawyer and UBP MP Ann Frith Cartwright DeCouto, Supreme Court Registrar Charles-Etta Simmons, Management Services director Colin Blades, Chief Fire Officer Reginald Rawlins and Health Department permanent secretary Donald Scott.