Her Majesty's Mails: An Historical and Descriptive Account of the British Post-officeS. Low, son, and Marston, 1864 - 348 pagine Postwesen, Postbetrieb, Postverkehr ; Geschichte ; Grossbritannien und Nordirland. |
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Her Majesty's Mails: An Historical and Descriptive Account of the British ... William Lewins Visualizzazione completa - 1864 |
Her Majesty's Mails: an historical and descriptive account of the British ... William LEWINS Visualizzazione completa - 1865 |
Her Majesty's Mails: An Historical and Descriptive Account of the British ... William Lewins Visualizzazione completa - 1864 |
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a-year amount appointed arrangements arrival bags banks book-packets British carriage carried charged classes clerks cloth coach colonies Committee conveyance conveyed correspondence cost delivered delivery of letters Department depositor deposits despatch district Dublin duties Earl Edinburgh England English envelopes establishment Euston Square Station expense Fcap foreign Government Hill's Holyhead horses House of Commons improvements increase inland inquiry Ireland journey letter-carriers Liverpool London Lord Lord Lichfield mail-coaches mails measure ment messengers miles Money-order Office newspapers number of letters ordinary packets paid paper Parliament passed penny postage persons post 8vo Post-Office authorities Post-Office officials postage-stamps postmaster Postmaster-General present principal proposed Queenstown railway post-office rates of postage received reform Report revenue salary savings scheme Scotland Secretary sent shilling Sir James Graham Sir Rowland Hill sorters sorting stamps town Treasury United Kingdom whilst
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