| [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, Mailand Coach Administrators. | 45 |
| [CHAPTER VI.] |
| Bristol Mail Coach Announcements, 1802, 1830.—The New General PostOffice, London. | 62 |
| [CHAPTER VII.] |
| The Bristol and Portsmouth Mail from 1772 onwards.—ProjectedSouth 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 worthyBoniface, 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 WesternRailroad.—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-JamaicanMail 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, InfluentialResidents, 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.—PostOffice Sports: Terrible Motor Cycle Accident.—Bristol Post Office in Darkness. | 199 |
| [CHAPTER XVII.] |
| Quaint Addresses.—The Dean's Peculiar Signature.—Amusing Incidentsand 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.—Coronationof King Edward VII.—Loyalty of Post Office Staff.—Mrs. Varnam-Coggan's Coronation Poem. | 232 |