EARLY MONEY ORDER PUBLIC NOTICE; printed 'No.15 - 1842' 'NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC/AND/Instructions to all Postmasters' dated 'March, 1842' regarding the use of & procedure for money orders for sums under Five Pounds. Central file fold and minor peripheral faults though a v.scarce survivor. Cross Reference: REGISTERED MAIL (Image)

OFFICIAL "POST OFFICE CIRCULARS", ETC.: A large flat packet containing 11 disbound issues of the 'POST OFFICE CIRCULAR' from July 9 to Sept. 17 1895; an 1890 'POST OFFICE CONVERSAZIONE' programme (outer pages foxed); a 1744 'London Gazette' with a notice re-'"Post Chaisses between London and Portsmouth"; an 1801 'London Chronicle' with an article re-theft from a Post Boy; a page from an 1825 edition of the 'Brighton Gazette' with advertisements of Stage Coaches (some illustrated); a copy of 'The Times' from 1862; and an extract from 'The Illustrated London News' from 1863 with a front page article about the pneumatic railway. An interesting lot. (Image)