Early Postal Communication.
London merchants established a postal communication of their own with Fiance and other Continental countries as eavly as the fifteenth century, and it is evident that, although the royal post of England, established in the thirteenth century, was intended and long restricted to the transmission of Government despatches only, it had gradually become a vehicle for private correspondence* -9
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Southland Times, Issue 19387, 10 September 1904, Page 1 (Supplement)
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62Early Postal Communication. Southland Times, Issue 19387, 10 September 1904, Page 1 (Supplement)
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