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Rowland Hill to George Hamilton MP (for Dublin).Five Official Letters (and an Official signed envelope) from Rowland Hill to George Hamilton MP (for Dublin) who was the Assistant Secretary to the Treasury (this position was later called the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury). They are Regarding the new arrangements for the Irish Postal Service and the routing of the mails via Holyhead and Chester (in 1840 most mails went via Liverpool). Interestingly that Hill stated when dealing with the Railway companys ???..our recent experience having clearly shown that arrangements merely binding in honour, are unsafe.
