——, Thos. Wright, 5, 6, 7, 10, 15, 16, 17, 94, 138, 291, 297
“History of Our Own Times, The,” Justin M'Carthy, 75, 92, 133
“History of the Post Office, The,” H. Joyce, 42, 45, 55, 56, 63, 70, 71, 72, 73, 75, 76, 92
“History of the Thirty Years' Peace, The,” H. Martineau, 40, 41
“Home Colonies and Extinction of Pauperism,” etc., 109; home colonies in Belgium and Holland, 109
Hong Kong post office, 228; clerks' holiday, 229
House of Commons, 43, 72, 96, 111, 113, 114, 116; Committee on Postage, 121-130; debates on Penny Postage Bill, 135, 138, 178, 224
House of Lords, 43, 96, 111, 136, 139; passes Penny Postage Bill, 141, 224
Improvements in Money Order system, account-keeping, holidays, 219; in life insurance and other funds, 219, 220; in lot of letter-carriers, sorters, etc., 253, 254, etc.
Increase of employment, pay, and prosperity, 101; of postal expenditure, 109, 170, 171, 172; of deliveries, 256; of facilities and speed in conveyance, 69, 257
Indian Mutiny, the, 282; P.O. becomes self-supporting, 253
Indignation at R. H.'s dismissal, 177-179
Industrial emancipation, Gladstone on, vii., viii.
Inland letters most profitable part of P.O. business, 169
“Invasion of the Crimea, The,” Kinglakes, 35
Ireland, 44, 54, 66, 73, 74, 77, 133, 233
Iron horse more formidable than foe on battlefield, 137
Joyce, Mr Herbert, “The History of the Post Office,” 42, 45, 55, 56, 63, 70, 71, 72, 76, 92
Kelly, Messrs (“The London Directory”), 301
Knight, Charles, 32; publishes “Post Office Reform,” 96; first to propose use of impressed stamp, 107, 158, 168, 189
Larousse, “_Dictionnaire du XIXe Siècle_,” 79, 186, 298
Lea, Provost, 4; Sarah (see Hill, Sarah); William, 4
—— carriers, 41, 62, 63, 105, 106; improvement in lot of, 220, 253, 254, etc.; letter-carrier and footman, 254; amalgamation of two corps of, 255, 256; the right sort of men as, 258, 275
“Letters, Conversations, and Recollections of S. T. Coleridge,” 60
“Letters of George Birkbeck Hill,” Mrs L. Crump, 112
Letters subjected to protective rates, 54; refused, mis-sent, etc., loss on, 62; no delivery before Dockwra's time, 74; losses of, 146, 147, 221; number of, after reform, 133, 165, 168, 169, 239; after extension of rural distribution, 255; sorted _en route_, 227; strangely addressed, 297, 298