| CHAPTER I. |
| The Earliest Bristol Posts, 1580.—Foot and Running Posts. —The First Bristol Postmasters: Allen and Teague, 1644-1660.—The Post House.—Earliest Letters, 1662. | 1 |
| CHAPTER II. |
| The Post House at the Dolphin Inn, in Dolphin Street, Bristol, 1662.— Exchange Avenue and Small Street Post Offices, Bristol. | 8 |
| CHAPTER III. |
| Elizabethan Post to Bristol.—The Queen's Progress, 1574. | 16 |
| CHAPTER IV. |
| The Roads.—The Coach.—Mr. John Palmer's Mail Coach Innovations, 1660-1818. | 22 |
| CHAPTER V. |
| Appreciations of Ralph Allen, John Palmer, and Sir Francis Freeling, Mail and Coach Administrators. | 45 |
| CHAPTER VI. |
| Bristol Mail Coach Announcements, 1802, 1830.—The New General Post Office, London. | 62 |
| CHAPTER VII. |
| The Bristol and Portsmouth Mail from 1772 onwards.—Projected South Coast Railway from Bristol, 1903.—The Bristol to Salisbury Postboy held up.—Mail Coach Accidents.— Luke Kent and Richard Griffiths, the Mail Guards. | 75 |
| CHAPTER VIII. |
| The Bush Tavern, Bristol's Famous Coaching Inn, and John Weeks, its worthy Boniface, 1775-1819.—The White Lion Coaching House, Bristol, Isaac Niblett.—The White Hart, Bath. | 93 |
| CHAPTER IX. |
| Toll Gates and Gate Keepers. | 110 |
| CHAPTER X. |
| Daring Robberies of the Bristol Mail by Highwaymen, 1726-1781.—Bill Nash, Mail Coach Robber, Convict, and Rich Colonist, 1832.—Burglaries at Post Offices in London and Bristol, 1881-1901. | 119 |
| CHAPTER XI. |
| Manchester and Liverpool Mails.—From Coach to Rail.—The Western Railroad.—Post Office Arbitration Case. | 141 |
| CHAPTER XII. |
| Primitive Post Office.—Fifth Clause Posts.—Mail Cart in a Rhine. —Effect of Gales on Post and Telegraph Service. | 151 |
| CHAPTER XIII. |
| Bristol Rejuvenated.—Visit of Prince of Wales in connection with the New Bristol Dock.—Bristol-Jamaican Mail Service.—American Mails.—Bristol Ship Letter Mails.—The Redland Post Office. —The Medical Officer.—Bristol Telegraphists in the South African War.—Lord Stanley, K.C.V.O., C.B., M.P. —Mr. J. Paul Bush, C.M.G. | 160 |
| CHAPTER XIV. |
| Small (The Post Office) Street, Bristol: its Ancient History, Influential Residents, Historic Houses; The Canns; The Early Home of the Elton Family. | 175 |
| CHAPTER XV. |
| The Post Office Trunk Telephone System at Bristol. | 195 |
| CHAPTER XVI. |
| The Post Office Benevolent Society: its Annual Meeting at Bristol.—Post Office Sports: Terrible Motor Cycle Accident.—Bristol Post Office in Darkness. | 199 |
| CHAPTER XVII. |
| Quaint Addresses.—The Dean's Peculiar Signature.—Amusing Incidents and the Postman's Knock.—Humorous Applications. | 223 |
| CHAPTER XVIII. |
| Postmasters-General (Rt. Hon. A. Morley and the Marquis of Londonderry) Visit Bristol.—The Postmaster of the House of Commons.—The King's New Postage Stamps.—Coronation of King Edward VII.—Loyalty of Post Office Staff.—Mrs. Varnam-Coggan's Coronation Poem. | 232 |
