Sir Rowland Hill: The Story of a Great Reform

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The author, a daughter and close family member of the reformer, combines personal recollections, family history, and documentary detail to trace the campaign for inexpensive, uniform postage. Chapters explain the antiquated postal arrangements, earlier reform efforts, the reformer's plan and its administrative and political reception at the Treasury and Post Office, the introduction of adhesive stamps and envelopes, and the operational changes that followed, concluding with the reformer's later years and an appendix quantifying postal results. Portraits, facsimiles, and anecdotal material illustrate both public achievements and private life.

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Transcriber's Note:

The original spelling, hyphenation, and punctuation have been retained, with the exception of apparent typographical errors which have been corrected.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant form was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Mid-paragraph illustrations have been moved between paragraphs and some illustrations have been moved closer to the text that references them. The List of Illustrations paginations were changed accordingly.
Footnote numbers [1] on pages 68, 186 and 188 are duplicated in the original text and have no corresponding footnotes.