friends, 146, 147; adventures of a letter, 148; terms of engagement, 149-153; visits M. D. H. at Leicester, the latter's letter, 151, 152; R. H.'s goal, 153; first visit to P.O., 154; finds building defective, early attendance at Treasury, 155; visits Paris, 155-160; suggests adhesive stamps, 107, 135, 138, 160, 196; accepts responsibility for prepayment, 160; by stamps or money? stamp troubles last for twelve months, 161; tentative rate satisfactory, uniform penny postage established, 162; congratulatory letters, 162-163; royal visitors to P.O., 164; testimony to benefits of reform, 166-169, etc; delay in issue of stamps, 170; lavish increase of expenditure, official evasions, 171-176; visit to Newcastle-on-Tyne prevented, the “fallacious return,” 174; error in accounts, 175; receives notice of dismissal, 176; offers to work without salary, 177; public indignant at dismissal, 177-179; R. H. and registration fee, 178; leaves Treasury, 179, 180; Lord Canning's curious revelation, xi., 181; will Peel raise postal rates? 181; joins London and Brighton Railway Directorate, 182-184; hears of M. de Valayer's invention, 189; Mr Chalmers' correspondence with R. H., 192; R. H.'s proposals as to stamps, 196; Treasury decides to adopt them, 198; stamp obliteration troubles, 205-208; absurd fables, 209; Peel's Government falls, restoration to office of reformer demanded, appointed to P.O., 211; compares his own case with that of Dockwra and Palmer, 213; Mr Warburton on terms, 214; R. H. willingly sacrifices good income for sake of reform, interview with Lord Clanricarde and Colonel Maberly, 215; reorganises Bristol post office, also entire Money Order System, turns deficit into profit, many improvements effected, 215-219; missives that go astray, 220; relief of Sunday labour, 222-227; the Chartists, 224; relief to Hong Kong officials, 228; post offices at railway stations suggested, 229; Parliamentary Committee on railway and canal charges, 230; efforts to obtain reasonable railway terms, 230-235; Steamship Co.'s heavy charges, 230; tries to obtain use of all railway trains, an acceleration of North-Western night mail train, and adoption of limited mails, 232; suggests fines for unpunctuality and rewards for punctuality, etc., 233, etc.; also Government loans to Railway Companies, 234; proposes trains limited to P.O. use, 235; Packet Service contracts: these often made without P.O. knowledge or control, 236; route to Australia by Panama longer than rival route, R. H.'s report to that effect, 238; exchange of mail-bags operation, 239; stamp-obliteration experiments, 240; workshop fitted up for P. H., who renounces prospects as civil engineer, 242-243; R. H.