Sequel to 'Concealment Unveiled', Submission of the Sir Rowland Hill Committee [Paperback]

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1886 Excerpt: ... Legacy To The Countrymen Of James Chalmers. The following letter from me was published in the Dundee Advertiser of 28th July, 1886:--"The Adhesive Postage Stamp. "To the Editor of the Dundee Advertiser. "Sir, "In the able article which appeared in your issue of the 19th January last, in recognition of my late father as having been the originator of the Adhesive Postage Stamp, it was there stated that Sir Rowland Hill simply 'took the credit' of what belonged to another. "In confirmation of that statement I am now enabled to hand you copy of a short publication, entitled 'Submission of the Sir Rowland Hill Committee,' in which it is shown from the proceedings and practical assent of his own Mansion House Committee that Sir Rowland Hill, however great his services, originally conceived, or first proposed nothing whatever in connection with that uniform penny postage scheme which has gone by his name, while having assumed and 'taken the credit' of same. As with the scheme so with the stamp, in having 'taken the credit' of which Sir Rowland Hill only displayed the same failing which had attended him from the first, in having put forward as his own the prior proposals of other men. "The value and importance of the Adhesive Postage Stamp cannot be better described than by the term 'indispensable' of the resolution of the Town Council of Dundee three years ago. The circumstances, however, under which this stamp was brought forward and became adopted, are, in the present day, unknown or forgotten. The great argument of the opponents of the uniform penny postage scheme was the impossibility of carrying it out in practice. 'Why should we be called upon to pass this Bill,' they said in 1839, 'when no mortal being had the remotest conception of how it was to be carried...