File NLW MS 6687D - Material relating to the General Post Office, &c.

A volume described as Post Office Vol. VIII and containing drafts and fair copies of letters and statements from the General Post Office to the Lords of the Treasury, March and April 1790, concerning the postage of letters and methods of checking them, accounts of twopenny letters from April 1789 to June 1790, dead letters, statements of the conveyance of mails in coaches, correspondence relating to the Leeward Islands Mails, statistics and correspondence relating to the Packet Boats, West India Packet Postage in 1789, and the Dover Packets, and weekly returns of the Packet Boats on the Falmouth Station, March-July 1789; copies of letters from John Drummond to Thomas, 2nd baron Walsingham (1748-1818), in 1789, relating to French schemes in the West Indies and elsewhere, to the manufacture of saltpetre, and to papers belonging to Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?-1618) and Sir John Hawkins (1532-1595), some of which refer to the alleged discovery of America by Madoc ap Owen Gwynedd (fl. 1170); letters from Joseph Cawthorne to Lord Walsingham referring to the Asiatic monopoly of the East India Company; printed copies of Acts of Parliament, 17-18 cents.