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Her Majesty's Mails
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William Lewins
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PREFACE.
This
volume
is
the
first
of
a
contemplated
series
designed
to
furnish
some
account
of
the
history
and
ordinary
working
of
the
revenue
departments
of
the
country--to
do
for
the
great
Governmental
industries
what
Mr.
Smiles
has
so
ably
done
(to
compare
his
great
things
with
our
small)
for
the
profession
of
civil
engineering
and
several
national
industries.
Few
attempts
have
ever
been
made
to
trace
the
rise
and
progress
of
the
invaluable
institution
of
the
Post-Office.
We
have
more
than
once
seen
the
question
asked
in
Notes
and
Queries--that
sine
quâ
non
of
the
curious
and
the
learned--where
a
continuous
account
might
be
found
of
English
postal
history.
In
each
case,
the
inquirer
has
been
referred
to
a
short
summary
of
the
history
of
the
Post-Office,
prefixed
to
the
Postmaster-General's
First
Report.
Since
that,
the
Messrs.
Black,
in
the
eighth
edition
of
the
Encyclopædia
Britannica,
have
supplied
an
excellent
and
more
extended
notice.
Still
more
recently,
however,
in
an
admirable
paper
on
the
Post-Office
in
Fraser's
Magazine,
Mr.
Matthew
D.
Hill
has
expressed
his
astonishment
that
so
little
study
has
been
given
to
the
subject--that
it
"has
attracted
the
attention
of
so
small
a
number
of
students,
and
of
each,
as
it
would
appear,
for
so
short
a
time."
"I
have
not
been
able
to
find,"
adds
Mr.
Hill,
"that
even
Germany
has
produced
a
single
work
which
affects
to
furnish
more
than
a
sketch
or
outline
of
postal
history."
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