Note 662 — VIII CONCLUSION
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"He was always eager to improve the mail service to remote towns; and would observe that one good result of State management was the consideration of out-of-the-way places. A private management, he said, might probably have introduced a halfpenny post in London, and have left the country worse served than at present."—Leslie Stephen, Life of Henry Fawcett, London, 1885, p. 438.