The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance

The Post-office renders an unpretending yet most important service to commerce and to society; and it will be a source of deep gratification to the author if what he has written should inspire in the reader a new and unexpected interest in "the hundred-handed giant who keeps up the intercourse between the different parts of the country, and wafts a sigh from Indus to the Pole." CONTENTS. CHAP. PAGE I. OLD ROADS, 1 II. POSTBOYS, 11 III. STAGE AND MAIL COACHES, 24 IV. FOOT-POSTS, 61 V. MAIL-PACKETS, 68 VI. SHIPWRECKED MAILS, 82 VII. AMOUNT OF WORK, 84 VIII. GROWTH OF CERTAIN POST-OFFICES, 95