INDEX 



347 



Fast co3iohes—co7itlnued 



Gloucester and Brighton, 32 



Glasgow, 228 



Edinburgh, 240, 241 



Defiance, 250, 251 



Macnamara's, 315 

 Fastnet Lighthouse, 2/4-277 

 Fawcett, Rt. Hon. H., M.P., 37 

 Fermoy, Lord, 271 

 ♦Feyther'snose,' 318 

 Fifty years' walking, 159 

 Finchley Common, 167 

 Finett, Sir J., 89 

 Finger in letter-box, 184 

 'Forward ' letters, 316 

 Fourgon, a, 87, 88 

 Frankiijo-, 6-8 

 Fredericks, T., 87 

 Free delivery of letters (South 



Wales), 155, 156 

 Freeling, Sir F., Bart., 5, 6, 8, 20, 



27, 32, 33, 36, 131, 325 

 Freeling, F. H., 33 



G. H., 33 

 Frost of 1895, 55, 60 

 Fulton, R., 91 



G. 



Galbraith, C, 293 

 Gales : 



Irish, 279 

 Of 1894, 299, 300 

 Galvanized wire, 217, 218 

 Gay, W., 132 



General Post-Office (in Lombard 

 Street) : 

 Cost of maintenance, 18 

 Mail-guards', Comptroller's, 

 housekeeper's rooms, 18, 19 

 Unpaid letter box, 19 

 Paid letter window, 19 

 Mail-coaches, 19, 20 

 General Post-Office at St. Mar- 

 tin's-le- Grand : 

 East, moving in, 20 



The building, 21-23 

 West, 36, 37 

 North, 37 

 Gill, Miss, 279, 280 

 Gladstone, Rt. Hon. W. E., 209, 

 210 



Glasgow, 234-239 



First London mail, 234, 235 

 Chamber of Commerce, 235- 



237 



Postmasters, 236-239 

 Golden Farmer, the, 95 

 Granville, Mr., 274 

 Gravenor, W. (post-boy), 82 

 Gretna, 231, 232 



Green, 230, 231 



Hall, 232 

 Grimthorpe, Lord, 174 

 Guards (mail), 13, 14, 16, 47-49, 

 262-265 



H. 



Hadley Highstone, 163, 170 

 Harley, H. O., 207 

 Harris, S., 229 

 Hat, Welshwoman's, 157, 158 

 Heavily-laden coaches, 250, 278 

 Heroism on mail-packet, 130, 131 

 Hicks's Hall, 39-41 

 Hicks, Sir B., 41 

 Highwaymen, 16, 52, 156, 157, 

 166, 179, 225 



(See also Bobberies of the 

 mail. ) 

 Hill, Frederic, 229, 321 



Sir Rowland, K.C.B., 36, 

 105, 311-318, 323, 324 

 Holborn Bars, 40, 42 

 Hoodwinking thieves, 16, 156, 



157 

 Home, B. W., 30 

 Horses : 



Methodical, 123-125 



Highwaymen's, 95, 166, 167 

 Hounds, 182, 183 

 Hull : 



Postmen, 67-69 



Post-office, 69-72 



Aquatic p^st, 70, 71 



Growth of letters, 73 



Mail-coach, 74 

 Hulls, J., 91 



Hundred-mile stages, 228 

 Hyde, J. Wilson, 233 

 Hyde Park Corner, 40 



I. 



Ice in Boston Harbour, 188 

 Ilfracombe, 143, 144 



