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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
178
The
professor
had,
consequent
upon
the
change
at
the
Post-Office,
arranged
a
scheme
of
co-operation
for
advancing
among
the
landed
interest
of
the
county
the
progress
of
agricultural
science.
After
stating
that
the
mere
suggestion
of
such
a
thing
had
involved
him
in
a
correspondence
which
he
could
not
have
sustained
if
it
had
not
been
for
the
penny
postage,
he
goes
on
to
say:
"To
the
importance
of
the
penny
postage
to
those
who
cultivate
science,
I
can
bear
most
unequivocal
testimony,
as
I
am
continually
receiving
and
transmitting
a
variety
of
specimens
by
post.
Among
them,
you
will
laugh
to
hear
that
I
have
received
three
living
carnivorous
slugs,
which
arrived
safely
in
a
pill-box!
That
the
penny
postage
is
an
important
addition
to
the
comforts
of
the
poor
labourer,
I
can
also
testify.
From
my
residence
in
a
neighbourhood
where
scarcely
any
labourers
can
read,
much
less
write,
I
am
often
employed
by
them
as
an
amanuensis,
and
have
frequently
heard
them
express
their
satisfaction
at
the
facility
they
enjoy
of
now
corresponding
with
distant
relatives.
The
rising
generation
are
learning
to
write,
and
a
most
material
addition
to
the
circulation
of
letters
may
soon
be
expected.
Of
the
vast
domestic
comfort
which
the
penny
postage
has
added
to
homes
like
my
own,
I
need
say
nothing
more."
Miss
Harriet
Martineau
bore
testimony
to
the
social
advantages
of
the
measure
in
the
neighbourhood
where
she
resided.
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