Category: History - British
Circular letters, and a kind of post for conveying them, are frequently mentioned both in sacred and profane history. Queen Jezebel is remarkable as being the first letter-writer on record, though it is not surprising to find that she used her pen for purposes of deception. Ac...
The Post-Office, from its peculiar organization and the nature of its business, is liable to many misconceptions from which the other great Government Departments are more or le...
14. CHAPTER II.In order to give the reader a proper idea of the channel through which ordinary correspondence flows--the circulation of letters in the Post-Office system--it will be necessary...
5. CHAPTER IV.Ten years after the removal of Docwray from his office in connexion with the "Penny Post," another rival to the Government department sprung up in the shape of a "Halfpenny Post...
8. CHAPTER VII.Miss Martineau, in her history of the _Thirty Years' Peace_, narrates a somewhat romantic incident to account for Mr. Hill's original relation to our subject, tracing the fiscal...
3. CHAPTER II.It was reserved for the Stuarts to organize for the first time in England a regular system of post communication, the benefits of which should be shared by all who could find th...
6. CHAPTER V.We have now arrived at a most important epoch in the history of the English Post-Office. Fifteen years after the death of Mr. Allen, John Palmer, one of the greatest of the earl...
11. CHAPTER X.From the year 1844 to the present time the progress of the Post-Office institution has been great and unexampled. Among Mr. Hill's minor proposals were those for the institution...
9. CHAPTER VIII.There are, of course, two aspects in which to contemplate the measure of penny-post reform. The first relates to its social, moral, and commercial results; the second views it i...
10. CHAPTER IX.It will be fresh in the memory of many readers, that the year 1844 revealed to the public certain usages of the Government, and a branch of post-office business--previously kept...
7. CHAPTER VI.It must not be supposed that the improvements in mail-conveyance were the only beneficial changes introduced into the Post-Office during the fifty years which we have designated...
2. CHAPTER I.Circular letters, and a kind of post for conveying them, are frequently mentioned both in sacred and profane history. Queen Jezebel is remarkable as being the first letter-write...
16. CHAPTER IV.The history of postage-stamps is somewhat remarkable. First used, as many of our readers will remember, in May 1840, the postage stamp has only just passed out of its years of m...
18. CHAPTER VI.1. Every person or firm engaged in extensive correspondence should purchase the "British Postal Guide," at least once a-year. It is published quarterly, and may be had at any po...
13. CHAPTER I.The Post-Office being a branch of the public service, instituted by statute, is, of course, under the control of the Government of the country in every respect. The principal Ac...
17. CHAPTER V.The idea of Savings' Banks for the industrial classes was first started at the commencement of the present century. They are said to owe their origin to the Rev. Joseph Smith, o...
4. CHAPTER III.If we seem in this chapter to make a divergence from the stream of postal history, it is only to make passing reference to the tributaries which helped to feed the main stream....
15. CHAPTER III.Our home and foreign mail-packet service is a costly and gigantic branch of the Post-Office establishment. During the greater part of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, t...
12. PART II."It has often struck me that some pains should be taken to make the main features of the Post-Office system intelligible to the people."--_Speech of Mr. Rowland Hill at Liverpoo...
1. CHAPTER VII.