Note 69 — Chapter XVIII

One or two anecdotes are still preserved in the Post Office of these meetings with the Surveyors. On one occasion Sir Rowland Hill had noticed a certain disposition to insubordination on the part of some of these gentlemen. “He rebuked them by reminding them that, according to the conventional conclusion of his letter, he was their obedient servant, ‘whereas—I am nothing of the sort.’” On another occasion, when talking of a certain able official who was rather a bore, he said, “he is an excellent officer—at Edinburgh.”—Ed.