ILLUSTRATIONS

Professor and Mrs. Fawcett Frontispiece

Henry Fawcett’s Mother Facing page 6

Henry Fawcett before he was Blind „ 26

Miss Maria Fawcett „ 50

Henry Fawcett at Cambridge, 1863 „ 102

Henry Fawcett and Mrs. Fawcett „ 130

Henry Fawcett „ 180

Henry Fawcett and his Father „ 204

Henry Fawcett „ 224

Fawcett’s Signature and Seal as Postmaster-General of England „ 252

The Man for the Post „ 272

The New Stamp Duty „ 276

Here stands a Post „ 282

Facsimile of a Letter from Queen Victoria to Mrs. Fawcett „ 316

Facsimile of a Letter from the Prince of Wales (King Edward VII.) to Mrs. Fawcett „ 318

Memorial in Westminster Abbey „ 322

1YOUTH

2‘Where the pools are bright and deep,

Where the gray trout lies asleep,

Up the river and over the lea,

That’s the way for Billy and me.’

James Hogg.

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