Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 143
age. In1847 tne United States adopted the use of thepostage-stamp, the lowest-priced one being fivecents. But railways and steamboats had now takenthe place of the old-fashioned mail-coaches andpostboys; and with the more rapid sending ofthe mails, the cheaper rates of postage, and thegrowing… … us to realize. To think of it almostsets our heads spinning. But delightful as it may be tohear from our absent friends sooften and so speedily, there is saidto be a drawback to this happyprivilege. The long, pleasant, newsy, charm-ing, carefully written letters of thepast seem with the increase of…
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