On the Track of the Mail-Coach: Being a Volume of Reminiscences Personal and Otherwise (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

F. E. Baines

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1332337104 ISBN 13: 9781332337101

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from On the Track of the Mail-Coach: Being a Volume of Reminiscences Personal and Otherwise

There is something yet to be written of interest about the cross-posts and other lines of mail-coach communication, and also about the coaching and posting inns which maintain an existence on the deserted mail-coach roads.

In this volume I have limited myself, for the most part, to the Track of Mail-coaches, making for the chief ports of the United Kingdom, and I have added some anecdotal matter bearing on the telegraph. Also, having long held certain Views with reference to postal and telephonic facilities in rural districts, I have taken this opportunity of giving expression to them.

Here and there I have afforded a glimpse of the complex public work which has been undertaken in the past, and which is still performed with fidelity by provincial postal officials, whose duties do not, as a rule, come under notice, but, as the late Home Secretary is reported to have stated, on the occasion of a Civil Service festivity in June, 1895, are dis charged 'in the twilight, through the mist of which the fierce glare of public observation and public applause can rarely penetrate.'

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Excerpt from On the Track of the Mail-Coach: Being a Volume of Reminiscences Personal and Otherwise The mail-coach period still has a firm, and possibly an increasing, hold on the public mind, but the officials and others who actually took part in the work of that stirring time - whether on the highroads or within the walls of post-offices - are rapidly passing away. I have been eager to preserve what those who remain, and some of those who are no more, have told me of matters within their own observation in that remote epoch, as well as what in other ways has come to my knowledge. I have included, too, such of my own recollections, not necessarily postal, as should secure continuity and cohesion in the narrative. Not all that I had to relate could be included within the limits of 'Forty Years at the Post-Office.' Many omissions, I am but too conscious, still have to be supplied. There is something yet to be written of interest about the cross-posts and other lines of mail-coach communication, and also about the coaching and posting inns which maintain an existence on the deserted mail-coach roads. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1332337104
• ISBN 13: 9781332337101
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 369