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The post - boy was forced to wait on every door- step until the recipient had collected the money to pay for the letter . For the poorer the receipt of a letter was month A CENTURY OF POSTAL SERVICE 21 quite a trial .
The post - boy was forced to wait on every door- step until the recipient had collected the money to pay for the letter . For the poorer the receipt of a letter was month A CENTURY OF POSTAL SERVICE 21 quite a trial .
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The Puffing Billy ' had fired the imagination of a century . Even before Rowland Hill the Post Office had recognised the great importance of the new invention for mail carriage .
The Puffing Billy ' had fired the imagination of a century . Even before Rowland Hill the Post Office had recognised the great importance of the new invention for mail carriage .
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Sir William's only serious pre- decessor in this important department of enquiry was Thorold Rogers , whose investigations , although they began with the thirteenth century , ended before the nineteenth century began , and therefore ...
Sir William's only serious pre- decessor in this important department of enquiry was Thorold Rogers , whose investigations , although they began with the thirteenth century , ended before the nineteenth century began , and therefore ...
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| Pealkiri | The Quarterly Review, 272–273. köide |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1939 |
| Original from | University of Iowa |
| Digitized | 3 sept. 2021 |
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