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SIR ROWLAND HILL, K.C.B., LATE SECRETARY TO THE POST OFFICE, 1864. CREATOR: MASON JACKSON.
Sir Rowland Hill, K.C.B., late Secretary to the Post Office, 1864. Engraving from a photograph by J. and C. Watkins of '...the author of the Penny Postage...Sir Rowland Hill has lately retired from the public service; but the country will not forget how much it owes to him...It was in 1836 that he applied himself to study the question of Post-office reform...The defects of the system which then existed were manifest...In estimating the first of the items of cost - receiving the letter and preparing it for its journey - Mr. Rowland Hill observed that the postage not only varied in proportion to the distance the letter had to travel, but that the clerk had to ascertain whether the letter was composed of one, two, or three sheets of paper. The rate of increase was...exorbitant, and bore no proportion to the small additional cost imposed upon the Post Office...delivering the letter and receiving the postage...exposed the Post Office to frauds and defalcations, and rendered necessary a multifarious and complicated system of accounts. The less money the postmasters handled the better...An agitation in favour of penny postage spread like wildfire...In 1839 the Penny Postage Act was passed, amid the joy and congratulations of the entire kingdom'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864. Sir Rowland Hill, K.C.B., late Secretary to the Post Office, 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
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ON THOUGHTS OF CHARITY INTENT, BY MISS E. BROWNLOW - FROM THE FEMALE ARTISTS' EXHIBITION, 1864. CREATOR: W THOMAS.
On Thoughts of Charity Intent, by Miss E. Brownlow - from the Female Artists' Exhibition, 1864. A '...charming little picture, very effectively painted by Miss Emma Brownlow...It is particularly to be observed that the Norman or Breton peasant girl...is a very young and a very little personage. We may see, as she stands in her thick wooden sabots, that her quaint white cap rises hardly above the poor-box into which bigger folk drop their alms in passing, and that the great hinge of the church door is nearly half as tall as she is; but these are the only objects with which her height is to be measured. It is the more essential to remark the juvenility of the little maiden, because her cap - to English eyes an old-fashioned one - her womanly dress and housewifely pocket, her kindly thoughtfulness - feeling, as she does, for perhaps her only sou or liard - seem all beyond her years. It is understood that our little heroine has gone to matins or to mass, or to say her prayers to the Virgin in some quiet side-chapel, all alone; and, as she leaves the house of God, this little Christian "remembers the poor." Examples for so doing she has had in plenty. Our Roman Catholic neighbours do not let the spider's web form over the hole of the poor-box'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864. On Thoughts of Charity Intent, by Miss E. Brownlow - from the Female Artists' Exhibition, 1864. Creator: W Thomas. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
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