A Hundred Years by Post

About this eBook

Author

Hyde, James Wilson, 1841-1918

Title

A Hundred Years by Post: A Jubilee Retrospect

Credits

Produced by Adrian Mastronardi, Martin Pettit, The Philatelic Digital Library Project at www.tpdlp.net and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

HE: Social sciences: Transportation and communications

Subject

Postal service -- Great Britain

Category

Text

eBook-No.

27688

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27688

Release Date

January 2, 2009

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A Hundred Years by Post
2. 2.J. WILSON HYDE — AUTHOR OF 'THE ROYAL MAIL: ITS CURIOSITIES AND ROMANCE' — LONDON — SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON AND CO., LIM. St. Dunstan's House FETTER LANE, FLEET STREET, E.C. 1891 — [ All rights reserved ] — TO — THE RIGHT HONOURABLE — HENRY CECIL RAIKES, M.P. — HER MAJESTY'S POSTMASTER-GENERAL, — THE FOLLOWING PAGES ARE, — BY PERMISSION, — RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.
3. 3.PREFACE.
4. 4.CONTENTS. — MAIL-COACH IN THUNDERSTORM. ( From a print, 1827. ) — A HUNDRED YEARS BY POST. — ANALYSIS OF THE LONDON TO EDINBURGH MAIL OF THE 2d MARCH 1838. ( After a print lent by Lady Cole from the collection of the late Sir Henry Cole, K.C.B. ) — THE MAIL, 1803. ( From a contemporary print. ) — THE MAIL, 1824. ( From a contemporary print. ) — MODERN MAIL "APPARATUS" FOR EXCHANGE OF MAIL-BAGS: SETTING THE POUCH—EARLY MORNING. — THE MAIL-COACH GUARD. — THE BELLMAN COLLECTING LETTERS FOR DESPATCH. — HOLYHEAD AND KINGSTOWN MAIL PACKET "PRINCE ARTHUR"—400 TONS—PERIOD 1850-60. ( From a painting, the property of the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company. ) — UNIFORM PENNY POSTAGE. — (FORM OF A PETITION.) — THE TONTINE READING-ROOMS, GLASGOW—ARRIVAL OF THE MAIL—PERIOD: END OF LAST CENTURY. ( After an old print. ) — FOOTNOTES:
5. 5.APPENDIX. — A. — B. — C. — D.

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