The Inland Office within the General Post Office. Royal Mail clerks sorting some of the 200 million letters sent annually in England in the 1840s. Steel engraving by Ellis after an illustration by Gilbert from London Interiors, Their Costumes and Ceremonies, Joshua Mead, London, 1841.

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