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Her Majesty's Mails
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William Lewins
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The
first
part
of
the
following
pages
is
offered
as
a
contribution
to
the
study
of
the
subject,
in
the
hope
that
it
will
be
allowed
to
fill
the
vacant
place,
at
any
rate,
until
the
work
is
done
more
worthily.
With
regard
to
that
most
interesting
episode
in
the
history
of
the
Post-Office
which
resulted
in
the
penny-post
reform,
the
materials
for
our
work--scanty
though
they
undoubtedly
are
in
the
earlier
periods--are
here
sufficiently
abundant.
The
scope,
however,
of
the
present
undertaking
would
not
allow
of
much
more
than
a
proportionate
amount
of
space
being
devoted
to
that
epoch.
Besides,
the
history
of
that
eventful
struggle
can
be
properly
told
but
by
one
hand,
and
that
hand,
if
spared,
intends,
we
believe,
to
tell
his
own
story.
Mr.
Torrens
MacCullagh,
in
his
Life
of
Sir
James
Graham,
has
thrown
much
new
light
on
the
letter-opening
transactions
of
1844,
and
we
have
been
led,
on
inquiry,
to
concur
in
many
of
his
views
on
the
subject.
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