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No further important steps were taken in Elizabeth's reign , but James I. established a regular post for inland letters , and Charles I. , recognizing , no doubt , the financial im- portance of the Post Office , declared it , in 1637 ...
No further important steps were taken in Elizabeth's reign , but James I. established a regular post for inland letters , and Charles I. , recognizing , no doubt , the financial im- portance of the Post Office , declared it , in 1637 ...
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Such a plan as to send letters to Warwick by the direct this was manifestly a step in the right route because the postage , being calcu- direction ; but that persistent obstructive- lated by distance , was higher and more ness which ...
Such a plan as to send letters to Warwick by the direct this was manifestly a step in the right route because the postage , being calcu- direction ; but that persistent obstructive- lated by distance , was higher and more ness which ...
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born punctuality of her habits , and at the sanctity which attached to letters , which she always received with her own ... that on the one or two occa- sions when she was late , no letters came by the mail . had a letter for her .
born punctuality of her habits , and at the sanctity which attached to letters , which she always received with her own ... that on the one or two occa- sions when she was late , no letters came by the mail . had a letter for her .
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