Frontmatter -- INTRODUCTION -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- CHAPTER I THE BEGINNINGS OF POSTAL SERVICE IN THE COLONIES -- CHAPTER II THE COLONIAL POST UNDER NEALE'S PATENT 1692-1707 -- CHAPTER III DEVELOPMENT OF THE COLONIAL POST AS A BRANCH OF THE BRITISH POST OFFICE, 1707-1775 -- CHAPTER IV THE EARLY...

This article places the British and American postal telegraph movements in the broader context of a transatlantic reform tradition. More specifically, British nationalization in 1870 gave American reformers both a rallying point and a rationale for postalizing the telegraphs. The legacies of...

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