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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
·
James Wilson Hyde
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=Yorkshire
Post.=--"Mr
J.
W.
Hyde
of
Edinburgh
has
collected
and
arranged
an
altogether
admirable
array
of
historical
and
illustrative
matter
bearing
on
our
postal
system."
=Courant.=--"He
has
made
a
wonderfully
good
book.
By
some
curious
instinct
he
has
divined
what
is
most
interesting
in
the
subject
he
writes
about,
and
there
is
not
a
dull
page
from
the
first
to
the
last.
No
previous
writer
on
the
Post-office
has
given
us
so
graphic
a
picture
of
its
daily
life,
and
of
the
adventures
it
undergoes
from
hour
to
hour.
He
has
in
truth
written
a
romance
of
the
Post-office
abounding
in
truths
stranger
than
fiction."
Transcriber's
Notes:
(1)
Obvious
punctuation
and
typographical
errors
have
been
rectified.
(2)
Italic
text
is
denoted
by
underscores
and
bold
text
by
=equals=.
(3)
Where
there
are
slight
differences
of
print
style
in
facsimiles
of
actual
documents,
they
have
not
been
altered
(e.g.
"postboy",
"Post-Office",
etc.).
(4)
In
chapter
XI,
the
table
has
been
restructured
to
fit
the
available
space
and
some
abbreviations
have
been
adjusted
and
defined.
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