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Palmer (John, postal innovator and MP, 1742-1818) Printed draft contract as "Surveyor and Comptroller General of the Mails, for and on behalf of his Majesty's Postmaster General, 2pp., black letter, double column, with manuscript additions and insertions in the hand of Palmer, including short note "Four copies to be made" affixed below, closely trimmed, horizontal folds, 1787; together with 9 others, postal history, including the working archive of Herbert Joyce, 3rd secretary to the Post Office, v.s. (10)

⁂ A remarkable surviving draft contract, prior to the agreement of final wording, with amendments made by one of the great innovators of the English postal service. Palmer was instrumental in the introduction of mail coaches which would quickly supersede the old system of mounted carriers and became the preferred method until the arrival of the railways.

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