The History of the Post Office
by Herbert Joyce
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About this eBook
- Author
- Joyce, Herbert
- Title
- The History of the Post Office, from Its Establishment Down to 1836
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Adrian Mastronardi, The Philatelic Digital Library Project
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- HE: Social sciences: Transportation and communications
- Subject
- Postal service -- Great Britain -- History
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 38328
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38328
- Release Date
- December 17, 2011
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE HISTORY OF THE POST OFFICE
- 2.HERBERT JOYCE, C.B.
- 3.CONTENTS — ERRATA
- 4.CHAPTER I — EARLY POSTS 1533-1609
- 5.CHAPTER II — THE BATTLE OF THE PATENTS 1609-1635
- 6.CHAPTER III — THOMAS WITHERINGS 1635—1644
- 7.CHAPTER IV — EDMUND PRIDEAUX AND CLEMENT OXENBRIDGE 1644—1660
- 8.CHAPTER V — WILLIAM DOCKWRA 1660-1685
- 9.CHAPTER VI — COTTON AND FRANKLAND Inland Service 1685-1705
- 10.CHAPTER VII — COTTON AND FRANKLAND Packet Service 1686-1713
- 11.CHAPTER VIII — AMERICAN POSTS 1692-1707
- 12.CHAPTER IX — THE POST OFFICE ACT OF 1711
- 13.CHAPTER X — RALPH ALLEN 1720-1764
- 14.CHAPTER XI — LEGISLATION AND LITIGATION 1764-1782
- 15.CHAPTER XII — JOHN PALMER 1782-1792
- 16.CHAPTER XIII — THE NINETIES: OR, ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
- 17.CHAPTER XIV — FRANCIS FREELING 1798-1817
- 18.CHAPTER XV — IRELAND 1801-1828
- 19.CHAPTER XVI — THE BEGINNING OF THE END 1817-1836
- 20.APPENDIX — SUCCESSION OF POSTMASTERS-GENERAL from 1660 to 1836 — SUCCESSION OF SECRETARIES TO THE POST OFFICE down to 1836.
- 21.INDEX
- 22.FOOTNOTES: — Transcriber's Notes:
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