the postmaster general (13 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 8vo. A good copy, 47pp. Blue paper covers stamped at top and tail by German and the Hague bookshops. Minor damp wrinkles to tail of front cover and crease to title page/index where printers' label stuck on after printing. Immediate despatch from the UK. Book.

Paperback. Zustand: Good-. First Edition. 8vo. A very thin copy, only 6 pages, string binding loose, but assumed complete. Immediate despatch from the UK. Book.

Paperback. Zustand: Good-. First Edition. 8vo. A good copy. 62pp. Blue paper covers stamped at top and tail by German and the Hague bookshops. Immediate despatch from the UK. Book.

Softcover. Zustand: Good. No edition state. December 1966, No.2. Publication of 276 pages. Ex-library, couple of stamp marks and library pocket rear of the book. Small code on the spine of the book. The hinges have been reinforced with tape. There are old tape residue marks on the end papers. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The binding is strong. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Zustand: New.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Zustand: Good. Folded Memo, Letter-sized Page, Letterpress on Laid Paper, Good with tears, creasing, losses.

Zustand: Good. Blank Form. 8.5" x 14", Folded Printed Sheet, Good with minor losses, marginal tears, toning.

First Edition. 22nd publication. 242pp + 86pp of trades information (postal services, hackney chairs etc.). Disbound, with original leather front board, detached. Last 20pp of trades in=formation defaced where a triangular cut has been made with loss to the last few pages. Main directory is intact with the addresses and names preserved as a useful genealogical source Some marks throughout but a fair copy.

Vellum. Zustand: Fine. Limited edition of the Universal Postal Union's One Hundredth Anniversary from Postmaster General E.T. Klassen, dedicated to Presidential Advisor Bryce Harlow. (illustrator). Limited Edition. Octavo, [26pp]. Blue vellum covers, title in gilt on cover. Blue endpapers. Matching blue slipcase. This copy was personally dedicated to the Honorable Bryce Harlow, with his name appearing in gilt on the cover and dedication page. Signed by Postmaster General E.T. Klassen on dedication page. This piece was a gift from Postmaster General E.T. Klassen, with commemorative stamps of every president through Lyndon Johnson. Bryce N. Harlow (1916 - 1987) was a veteran of Washington DC, serving as an administrative assistant, speechwriter and deputy assistant for congressional affairs in the Eisenhower Administration. During the campaign of 1960, he was a speechwriter for Vice President Nixon's unsuccessful presidential campaign. With Nixon's election in 1968, Harlow was the first presidential appointment of the new administration, serving as a congressional liaison. Harlow was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1981 by President Ronald Reagan. He died in 1987. Signed.

From the papers of Arthur George Liddon Rogers (1864-1944), son and editor of the economist Thorold Rogers [James Edwin Thorold Rogers] (1823-1890), for information regarding whom see his entry in the Oxford DNB. The three items in good condition, lightly aged. Each folded three times. All three signed 'Arnold Morley'. ONE: 5 November 1891. 3pp, 12mo. Begins: 'In confirmation of the conversation I had with you the other day, & after consultation with Mr Schandhorst on behalf of the National Liberal Federation, I now write to say that we appoint you Secretary of the Publication Department upon the terms of Mr. Schnadhorst's letter to you of April 9. 1891.' TWO: 10 August 1892. 3pp, 12mo. Following the General Election [which the Liberals won], he congratulates Rogers 'on the manner in which the duties of the post, & the work of the department have been carried out.' The department gave 'general satisfaction' during a 'period of great stress', and he is enclosing a cheque for £75 'as an acknowledgment of the extra labour' imposed on Rogers, and the 'Energy which you have displayed'. THREE: 27 May 1893. 2pp, 12mo. 'I have no very clear recollection of the occasion when I made the alleged statement with regard to the tactics of our opponents at the last General Election.' He thinks it is 'somewhat late in the day' for the Conservatives to be 'making enquiries about it; but the election petitions which followed in due course sufficiently justified any statement I may have made'.

The recipient of the letter, the 5th Earl of Chesterfield, was Postmaster General between 1790 and 1798. The 'Mr. Palmer' mentioned in the text is John Palmer (1742-1818), MP for Bath, who was Comptroller General of the Post Office between 1786 and 1792. Harraden appears to have been regarded by his superiors as a whistle-blower and trouble-maker. In 1788, as Clerk of the Money Book in the Inland Office (he is elsewhere described as ''Clerk of the letter-bill, and keeper of the cheque-book in the surveyor and comptroller general's departments'), he devised a general system for the registration of property letters. Although the plan was not fully implemented, some of its suggestions were adopted in 1792. Shortly afterwards he was the subject of a curious appendix to a parliamentary paper, which describes him as a tool of 'the Junto', and 'the instrument of their duplicity and the victim of their vengeance at a Board. The report prints 'Mr. Harraden's Plan (his object being 'to prove that a thousand pounds had been stolen in one week', which 'Lord Chesterfield admitted'), and Mr. Stowe's Observations on it'. The extreme craft and imposition which they practised on the Postmaster General, in the affair of the 1st of March, 1796, require to be particularly exposed.' 3pp., folio. Bifolium addressed on the reverse of the second leaf to 'The Right Honrble the Earl of Chesterfield'. In good condition, lightly aged and worn. Harraden begins by stating that he is enclosing 'a Letter addressd [sic] to Lord Walsingham in the year 1798 soliciting his Sanction to a recommendation of Mr. Palmers wherein He was pleasd to remark that my services merited an encrease of Salary and earnestly entreating his Lordships Consideration to the hardships of my case but nothing favorable arising therefrom His Lordship entirely forgetting every Circumstance and now compelld by necessity, I have renewd the subject and wrote again and also beg leave to lay before Lordship [sic] some features of my situation that may serve to explain, and satisfy you, that the application merited a more considerate fate than has yet attended it -'. He recounts that in 1800 he 'solicited to retire from the Post Office and was granted a Pension of £53 . 6 . 8 P annm but so overwhelmed in pecuniary affairs owing to the error I fell into by following the first Law Authorities and bringing an Action your Lordship as Postmaster General that from this Cause alone I was under continuall [sic] arrests and suffered near Three Years Imprisonment and now hold my Liberty by a Public Act of Insolvency and as the Income Tax has reduced my Pension under £12 P Quarter I have been forced to Petition the Postmaster General for some relief stating that the Price of every article in Life is raised nearly Double since it was granted'. He quotes the unfavourable response to his petition, and proceeds to explain how he 'sustained the loss of near £500 for endeavouring to recover Money actually expended in a Public Service'. The next paragraph concerns the recommendation of 'Mr. Palmer' for an advance in the pension of £20 per annum, as a result of Harraden's 'attendance and unremitting efforts to his useful Plan [] for it was observed by all I was indefatigable Night as well as Day in the Cause being often called up by Opening all Letters and expresses to Mr Palmer for the first Several Years of his being Comptroller General'. He is 'apprehensive of Trespassing too much' on Chesterfield's time, but feels regarding his case that 'if a Blot could be justly made against me in official matters I would not solicit any great or good Man in my favor and if such Gentlemen as Mr. George White Thomas [MP for Chichester] Mr. Wm. Hayley if Earlham [friend of William Cowper and patron of William Blake] and others did not approve my Conduct and think me worthy they would not have interested themselves in my behalf'. He ends with a flurry of flattery, stating that he was 'in great hopes' when his 'good Friend' Thomas waited on Chesterfield 'purposely on my account and then wrote me word your Lordship was so far favorably inclined as to give hope'.

Zustand: Very good. - A 3-5/8 inch high by 6-1/2 inch wide envelope illustrated with vignettes of the First Air Mail Flight which took off from Mineola in 1911 and the 1931 equivalent. "Mineola Chamber of Commerce" and the date are stamped in green at the top left and three two cent U.S. postage stamps at right are postmarked with the date and canceled. Addressed to Seymour Halpern in type, the envelope is signed in ink vertically along the left edge "Frank Hitchock / P.M.G. 1911", indicating his position as Postmaster General when that first air mail flight took off in 1911. The envelope is opened and a return address is typed on the flap on the verso. Very good. Chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1908 to 1909, Frank Harris Hitchcock (1867-1935) was Postmaster General of the United States under President Taft from 1909 to 1913. Hitchcock is credited with establishing the first U.S. airmail service and with cracking down on mail fraud.The recipient, Queens, New York Republican Congressman Seymour Halpern (1913-1997) started his political career as a campaign aide to New York's powerful mayor Fiorella La Guardia and first served in New York's State Senate for 14 years before seeking a seat in the U.S. Congress. In Albany Halpern sponsored 279 bills that became law, including measures on schools, housing, civil rights, nutrition and mental health. A Liberal, he was something of an anomaly as the lone Republican representative from New York City, and generally garnered support from Labor Unions and endorsement from the Liberal Party. Yet he never even considered switching parties as he considered membership in the Republican Party a family tradition and commitment. While he found ample time for his private pursuits, including painting and collecting autographs, he took his legislative duties very seriously. Of these, he was proudest of his co-sponsorship of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and of the original 1965 Medicare legislation.