The History of the Post Office in British North America

by William Smith

[178] Can. Arch., Q. 166, p. 371.

[179] Ibid., C. 285, p. 63.

[180] Ibid., Br. P.O. Transcripts, III.

[181] Memorandum of W.B. Felton, October 1826 (Can. Arch., Br. P.O. Transcripts, II.).

[182] At the inquiry respecting Hill's proposition for penny postage, the assistant secretary of the general post office stated that the American packet, which sailed from England every ten days, carried 4000 letters each voyage, which did not pass through the post office (Life of Sir Rowland Hill, by George Birkbeck Hill, I. 303).

[183] Can. Arch., G.P.O., Br. P.O. Transcripts, II.

[184] Can. Arch., Br. P.O. Transcripts, III.

[185] Can. Arch., Br. P.O. Transcripts, III.

[186] Can. Arch., Br. P.O. Transcripts, III.

[187] Ibid., Q. 173, p. 372.