The staff also made elaborate arrangements to take an active part in the grand procession which had been organized at Bristol to celebrate the Coronation, but, alas, the procession had to be postponed in consequence of the King's sudden illness on the 24th June, and finally was abandoned altogether. The Post Office section, which was to have been honoured with first place in the procession, was designed to give the Bristol public some idea of the working of this most useful branch of the public service. The section was to have been arranged as follows:--Telegraph Messengers' Drum and Fife Band. Company of Telegraph Messengers, with Carbines. Telegraph Messengers' Cycle Corps. Company of Postmen. Mail Carrier Tricycle. Country Mail Cart--present day. Town Mail Van--present day. London to Bristol Royal Mail Coach of 100 years since, with Coachman and Guard in Royal livery of the Period. Guard carrying an ancient Mail Guard's blunderbuss, borrowed from the armoury of Mr. Rawlins, of Syston Court. Post Office Tableau, illustrative of the Collecting, Stamping, and Sorting of Letters, and the Despatch of Mail Bags; also the sending of Telegrams. [Illustration: ADDRESS TO THE KING.] The following acknowledgment of the Address was received on the King's recovery:-- "Home Office, Whitehall, 5 Sept., 1902. Sir,--I am commanded by the King to convey to you hereby His Majesty's thanks for the Loyal and Dutiful Address of the Staff of the Postal and Telegraph Services at Bristol. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, A. Akers Douglas. The Surveyor Postmaster, Post Office, Bristol." The address to His Majesty is here reproduced, and as the sentiments contained in it represent the writer's wishes for King and Queen, it may, perhaps, fittingly close the chapters of "The King's Post." INDEX. PAGE Aberystwith, Mail Coach, 77 Addresses, Quaint, 223, 224 African War, P.O. Volunteers, 172 Aldhelm, Bishop, 205 Allen, Col., 48, 49 Allen, Ralph, Cross Posts, 25 " " Honoured, 46, 47 " " Medal, 49, 50 Allen, Richard, P.M.G., 3 Almondsbury, Penny Post, 154 American Mails _via_ Plymouth, 164-167 Anabaptist Opinions, 6 Anderson, James, Bush Inn, 98 " " Lamb Inn, 100 Arlington, Lord, Letters Delayed, 23 Arno's Vale Turnpike, 115 Arrowsmith, Mr. J.W., Publisher, 147 Asher, Mr., Speech, 215 Avon Motor Co., 91 Avonmouth Dock, New, 161 Baptist College, 7 Bear Inn, Devizes, 102 Beaufort, Dukes of, 102, 108 Benevolent Society, P.O., Banquet at Bristol, 199 Bennett, Mr. E., Speech, 215, 218 Birmingham, Coach, 24, 64, 66 " George and Rose Inn, 65 " Rose Inn, 66 Bishop of Bristol, Speech, 202, 206 Bisshopp, Henry, Farmer of Posts, 22 Blatchford, Rev. A.N., Speech, 206 Boar's Head Inn, 64 Botting, Mr., Speech, 214