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Papers from the Historical Seminary of Brown University

Edited by J. Franklin Jameson, Ph. D., Professor of History

II

The Early History of the Colonial Post-Office

by Mary E. Woolley

Reprinted from the Publications of the Rhode Island Historical Society

PROVIDENCE, R. I. 1894