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INDEX 



Indian Mails : 



Through France, 86-88, 105 



First, 132 

 Indian Queen, 122 

 Indian telegrams, 293, 294 

 Inman Line, 111 

 Ireland : 



Mail-trains in snow, 57, 58 



Mail-coach services, 258 



Inland postage, 266 



American mails, 270 

 * Ironclad chairs,' 292 

 Isle of Man : 



Snow, 59, 60 



Mail-service, 185 

 Isle of Wight packet, 100 

 Ivy Bush, 152-154 



Jackson, Mary, 159 

 Jamaica, dangers in, 109, 110 

 Jamaica Inn, 121, 122 

 Jarvis, J., 68, 69 

 Johnson's wireworks, 217 

 Journeys by coach, 201, 202, 228- 



230 

 Joyce, H., C.B., 28, 129 



K. 



Kains, J., 108 



Kaye, Mr., 22, 23 



Kilkenny, 263 



Killarney, 265, 266 



King George passage-boat, 88, 89 



Kingston-upon-Hull, 62 



Lambert, J. P., 108 



Lambert, the diver, 151, 152 



Lame steamers, 56, 57 



Law of averages (an example), 



112, 113 

 Lawrence, F. J., 33 

 Lefevre, G. J. Shaw, Rt. Hon., 



37 

 Lepsius, Dr., 105 

 Letter-boxes at Melbourne, 320, 



321 

 Letters : 



Enclosures, 6, 7 

 125 miles of, 191 



Liberty of St. Martin's-le-Grand, 



21, 22 

 Lichfield, Earl of, 31, 32, 116, 



117, 307, 309 

 Lifeboat telephones, 196 

 'Limited ' coaches, 177 

 Liver pills, 211 

 Liverpool : 



Mail-coaches, 177, 181-183 



Mail-steamers, 185-192 



Landing-stage, 192, 193 



Post-office, 193-196 



Postmaster, 194-196 



Postal growth of business, 195 

 Lizard 'Town,' 115 



Signal-station, 138 



Loss of Mosel, 139 

 Local parcel post proposed, 335 

 London in snow, 45, 46, 54, 55 

 Loughor, Nanny, 158, 159 

 Lucan, Earl of, 304 



M. 



Maberly, Col., 36, 146, 306 311 



F. H., 230 

 McCulloch's views, 307, 308 

 Maclver, D., 187 

 Macnamara's coaches, 167, 315, 



316 

 Mail -bags, 97 

 Mail-box, 13, 14 



Mail-carts, lonely rides, 249, 250 

 Mail-coach office, 38 

 Mail-coaches : 



From London, 19, 20 



At St. Martin's-le-Grand, 23 



Acceleration of, 24, 31, 32 



Speed, 24, 25 



Cost, 32 



Snow, 45-49 

 Mail-guards. See Guards [mail) 

 Mail-riders, 14, 15 

 Mail-service contracts, 26, 27 

 Mail-trains in snow, 45, 55-58 

 Malle poste, 24 

 Manchester : 



Mail-coach centre, 197-201 



Postmasters, 204-207 



Postal staff, 207 



Early dinner, 208 



Strange inquiries, 208-210 



A poet, 215 



