smith max johnson robert (1 Ergebnisse)

xiv + 291 large pp. 1st ed., clean in card covers. Corner crease to back cover. Overland mail within India (from about 1840 to 1870)particularly between Bombay, Calcutta and Madras and the means by which a sender could get mail across India quickly. Background information in appendices, which reproduce many extracts from original documents including the Post Office Annual Reports of the period. These discuss the changing routes of the Overland mail across India and the effects on postal services of the Mutiny of 1857-58. Other appendices give the dates and closing times of Expresses to and from Bombay and the After Packet from Calcutta in connection with the Overland mail and the growth of the railway system.