Letter Writing and Victorian Political History (original) (raw)

• Sir Rowland Hill (1795-1879)
• Punch on invasions of privacy: Post Office officials open personal letters
• The Penny Post and the campaign against the Corn Laws (material needed)
• Related laws (material needed)
• Public suspicion of governmental centralization (material needed)
• The political rhetoric in the campaign for the penny post (material needed)

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