[from Cubbon - Bibliography, Vol 1, 1933]

POST OFFICE, TELEGRAPHY, &c.

(Arranged in order of date of publication.)

Letters from Whitehaven Post Office to the Isle of Man. In Gents Mag., Jan. 1766. [B 102] Not in Library.

Copy of Telegram Form sent from Whitehaven to Douglas on May 16, 1861. 'From John Redfern, 23 West-strand, Whitehaven, to Samuel Harris, Esq., Douglas. ' Goldie-Taubman Esq. is on board the Mona's Isle, sailed ' for Ramsey at a quarter past two p.m. P. J. D[uyshart] ' clerk.' [6103, B 102]

Isle of Man Electric Telegraph Company. List of shareholders, 3rd January, 1866. Douglas: James Brown. pp. 4. 225x138. [5728, B 102]
The Company was incorporated in 1859.

Telegraphic Communication. Correspondence relating to the re-opening of telegraphic communication between the Isle of Man and England. Douglas: Harriet Curphey. 1868. pp. 11. 245x155. [6045, B 102]

Telegraph Communication: Report of the Tynwald Court Committee appointed to consider the question of maintaining telegraphic communication between the Isle of Man and England, February 1868. Douglas: Harriet Curphey. pp. 16. 231x150. [6044, B 102]

Estimate of Receipts and Expenditure on account of Post Office and Telegraphs, 1873-4. 1875. pp. 2. 330x205. [6103, B 102]

Post Office, Isle of Man: Return to an order of the Honble House of Commons, dated 11th March, 1875, for A Return of the gross Receipts and particulars of Expen- diture of the Post Office of the Isle of Man for the year 1874. pp. 3. 330x205. [6103, B 102]
Gives the gross postal receipts each year from 1865, the highest in 1874 being £5,327/9/521. The telegraph business was commenced by the Post Office on 20th August, 1870, and reached £1,797 in 1874. The postal expenditure in 1874 was £2,951/14/2, and, on account of telegraph alone, £644/0/8.

Return of the gross Receipts of the Post Office of the Isle of Man in the years 1875-8 inclusive, and particulars of Expenditure in the year 1878. 1879. pp. 3. [6103, B 102]

The question of a Daily Mail Service and the Insular Postal Service. Minute of Governor Loch, 3rd February, 1879. pp. 2. 330x205. [6103, B102]

Minute of the Lieut.-Governor [Loch] relative to a Daily Mail Service, etc., dated 3rd February, 1879. pp. 2. 330x210. [6122, D 152]

A Bill intituled An Act to amend the Telegraph Acts, 1863 to 1885, and the Post Office Acts in relation to the Isle of Man. H.M. Sta. Office, 1889. pp. 4. 330x205. [6103, B 102]

Telephonic Coast Communication: Report of Committee of Tynwald on the provision of Telephonic Coast Communication, dated 5th July, 1893. B. & S. 1893. pp. 2. 330x210. [6124, D 152]

Telephone Directory, I.M. District, Jan. 1925. H.M. Sta. Office Press. pp. x,8. 250x190. [6103, B 102]

Telephone Directory, I.M. District. H.M. Sta. Office Press. July 1925. pp. x.8. 250x190. [6103, B 102]

Trades Phone Book of Telephone Subscribers, 1925. Pears Publicity Service, Manchester. pp. 12. 250x190. [6103, B 102]

Telephone Directory, I.M. District. Jan. 1926. H.M. Sta. Office. pp. x,8. 250x190. [5389, B 102]

Business Phone Book, I.M. District, 1926. Manchester Wright's Publicity Service. pp. 20. 250x190. [5389, B 102]

Telephone Directory, I.M. District, Jan. 1927. H.M. Sta. Office. pp. x,10. 250x190. [6103, B 102]

Telephone Directory, I.M. District, July 1927. H.M. Sta. Office, pp. x,10. 250x190. [6103, B 102]

Telephone Directory, I.M. District, Jan. and July, 1928; Jan. and June, 1929; Jan. and June, 1930. I.M. Sta. Office. pp. vī,10. 280x215. [6103, B 102]

See also Feltham's Tour, Mx Soc. vi. pp. 69-70, 261, and Sir James Gell, Mx Soc. xii, pp. 212-6.

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