PREFACE.

DEDICATION.

CONTENTS. I. PAGE Posts Post-Offices, Ancient and Modern 13

I. Posts Post-Offices, Ancient and Modern.

II. Nihil Sub Sole Novi.

III. Origin of the Materials of Writing, Tablets, etc.

IV. Messengers, Carriers, etc.

V. Post-Offices England.

VI. The Kaffir Letter-Carrier African Post.

VII. Post-Offices The Colonies.

VIII. Pennsylvania The Olden Time. SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA.

IX. Philadelphia Post-Office Posts, etc.

X. Reminiscences. MAD ANTHONY WAYNE AND JEMMY THE ROVER.

XI. Postmasters.

XII. Philadelphia 1793.

XIII. Special Agents.

XIV. Miscellaneous. THE ANDERSONVILLE POST-OFFICE.

XV. Tales of the Post-Office. THE VICTIM OF LOVE.

XVI. Addenda. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

FOOTNOTES:

INDEX.

OR

CONTAINING

BIOGRAPHIES, TALES, SKETCHES,
INCIDENTS, AND STATISTICS CONNECTED WITH
POSTAL HISTORY.

BY

JAMES REES,
CLERK IN THE PHILADELPHIA POST-OFFICE.

“The Post-Office is properly a mercantile project. The government advances the expense of establishing the different offices, and of buying or hiring the necessary horses or carriages, and is repaid with a large profit by the duties upon what is carried.”

Smith, Wealth of Nations.

“A Messenger with Letters.”—Spenser.

PHILADELPHIA:
J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.
1866.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by
J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.
in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern
District of Pennsylvania.