Palmer, John, 67.
Pandora’s Box, Dead-Letter Office, 313.
Paper, 37.
Papyrus, 37.
Pastoral Life, 28.
Labor, 29.
Pencils, 39.
Penn, William, 102, 104, 113, 117.
Pennsylvania in the Olden Time, 102.
History of, 102.
Penny Post first established, 63.
in America, 392.
in England, 383.
Philadelphia Post-Office, 110.
Architectural View, 237.
in 1793, 230.
in the Olden Time, 122.
Postmasters, 234.
Post-Office, Inside View, 241.
Post-Office, Outside View, 239.
Stage-Wagons, 115.
Pickering, Thomas, Postmaster-General, 188.
Plan of Philadelphia, 117.
Plitt, George, his Report on Foreign Post-Offices, 380.
Post-Coaches, 271.
Horses, 20, 93, 271.
Riders, 19.
Postage on Printed Matter, 339.
Domestic, 340.
Stamp Collectors, 377.
Stamps, History of, 373.
curious use of, 378.
Postal Department, 267.
Revenue, 282.
Statistics, 262.
Tables, Important, 260.
Postmaster-Generals, a List of, 187.
a Royal One, 18.
under the Constitution, 188.
under the Crown, 94.
under the Proprietary Government, 187.
Postmasters in Philadelphia, 234.
Post-Office, Philadelphia, 110, 230.
a Political Institution, 16, 203.
Boston, 94.
Curiosities, 357.
England, 57, 382.
New York, 95, 99.
solvent, 387.
Statistics, 260.
Post-Offices, Ancient and Modern, 13.
Number of, 206.
Posts, Early, 98.
in China, 58.
in Greece, 14.
in Rome, 14.
in the Tyrol, 17.
under King Cyrus, 18.
Pratt, Henry, Post-Rider (1738), 121.
Presidents of Congress, Colonial, 176.
under the Constitution, 177.
Press, Abuse of the Freedom of, 356.
Press, Freedom of the, 355.
Importance of, 253.
Prophecy, a Strange One, 157.
Pyramids of Egypt, 19, 275.