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FOOTNOTES: [101] Post-Office Reform, p. 26. [102] Results of the New Postal Arrangements, read before the Statistical Society of London, 1841. [103] Second Report, p. 365. [104] The reader of such books as Cowper's Life and Letters, and Moore's Correspondence, will find that the means of obtaining franks, or carriage for their manuscripts or proofs, gave the poets frequent uneasiness, and lost them much time. So with many needy literary men, in what Professor de Morgan somewhat absurdly calls the "Prerowlandian days." The Professor himself gives an instance of an author sending up some dry manuscripts to him, under cover to a member of Parliament, expressing a hope, we think, that the representative would feel some interest in the subject. [105] Laing's Notes of a Traveller. [106] Fraser's Magazine, September, 1862. [107] Mr. Joshua Leavitt. [108] Page 96. [109] Select Committee on Postage, 1843, p. 246. [110] Parliamentary Committee, Third Report, p. 64. [111] "The first result of the scheme amply vindicated the policy of the new system, but it required progressive and striking evidence to exhaust all opposition."--Ency. Brit. Eighth Edition. [112] Postmaster-General's First Report. [113] Select Committee on the Post-Office, 1843. [114] In the last month of high charges, of two and a half million letters passing through the London Office, nearly two millions were unpaid, and few more than half a million paid. Twelve months afterwards, the proportion of paid to unpaid letters was entirely changed, the latter had run up to the enormous number of five and a half millions; the former had shrunk to about half a million.