Bundle of accounts and computations concerning the Postal Service
MS.D.D.Dashwood Bucks. B.2/3
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Bundle of accounts and computations concerning the Postal Service
Shelfmark
MS.D.D.Dashwood Bucks. B.2/3
Summary
Including: statement of cost of making a post cart, n.d.; lists of diamond packets sent from the Foreign Post Office, 1767; statement of cost of prosecuting Mail Robbers, 1767-70; statement of revenue from Penny Post Office, 1761-7; summary profit and loss statement of the Post Office, 1772-6; stated account of Robt Trevor, receiver general of the G.P.O., London, 1776.
Date
1767-76
Language
English
Physical extent
20 items
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Collection contents
Archive of the Dashwood Family of West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
Papers of Sir Francis Dashwood, 2nd Bart., (from 1763 Lord Le Despencer)
Official and political papers
Papers connected with Lord le Despencer as Joint Post Master General
Bundle of accounts and computations concerning the Postal Service
