These letters graciously have been shared with the Victorian Web by Eunice and Ron Shanahan; they have been taken from their website. The letters give an insight into the daily lives and concerns of ordinary people without whom history would not exist. The letters are a wonderful example of how much history may be gleaned from such primary sources.
Postal information
- General postal information
- To Pay, or not To Pay ? — that is the question.
- Postage rates within Great Britain 1805-1839
- Free Franks
- Posting a letter
- Postage costs in Regency Context
- Who paid the postagein the Regency period?
Letters
- The Trial of Lord Oxford, 1717
- Family news 1717
- Sir Henry Gough, an angry man — London, 1725
- Bishop Marks, Rents & lands, 1770-1772
- 18th century family letter — Scotland to England
- Life was no fun in 1791
- Paris to London, 1792 (letter 1)
- Paris to London, 1792 (letter 2)
- York & Somerset Heralds die in crush: 1792
- Messrs. Bell & Bradfoote, 1792
- Robert Crook, Congregationalist: 1797
- Herbert Brace, Lawyer, London 1798
- A Guernsey Seigneur's family letter of 1798
- Mr. Harman of London, 1798, and the 'Swan with Two Necks'
- Devizes, Wiltshire to Canterbury, Kent, 1800
- 200 years ago, but times don't change. . .
- Ely to Bath, 1803 — A 200 year old family letter
- Request for mail service: Edinburgh, 1805
- 1805 — a time of Napoleon's battles
- Thomas Maurice, Assistant Librarian at the British Museum, London: 1810
- The Peninsular War, 1811
- The Peninsular War, 1812
- HMS Namur: a seaman's letter of 1812
- George Dunlop — Spendthrift: 1813
- Military Connections 1 1814
- Military Connections 2 Mrs Helen Lesslie, Goatmilk, by Leslie, Fifeshire, N. Britain, 1814
- Military Connections 3 William Crowdy, Westrop House
- Parlez vous Francais? Mitholm to Bolzano, 1814
- Wife to absent husband: Ann Craig in Tyllodioch, Scotland 1814
- Jamaica to Plymouth Dock, 1815
- London to Aberdeen 1815 ...in which the Leith people are dismissed as ’vile’
- Louise D’Orleans, Frenchwoman in London, 1816
- Teignmouth to Oporto, 1816
- Birmingham to London, 1817
- Oxford Students, 1817
- Finance and Art, 1817
- London to Campbeltown, 1817
- "Them against Us": One vicar to another, 1818
- Election Time: Salisbury, England (1818)
- Tenants for a 19th century Kentish farm
- Guns, Money & Influence, 1820
- Election Time, England: 1820
- "All Rev’d Up": A 19th Century Cleric 1820
- Hingham, Massachusetts to London, 1822
- Christs Hospital, Bluecoat School: Hertford to London, 1822
- Beckenham to Ashford, 1824
- Further information on the Ashford Letter
- Bristol Penny Post: two letters written in 1824
- Mr Hurst, financial Investor, 1824
- Brighton to London, 1827
- Poor Ann Robinson is in 'trubel': 1829
- Scotland to London, Wilhelmina Malcolm, to Miss Stewart: 1829
- Sandbach Tinne & Co, West India Merchants of Liverpool: 1830
- Turmoil & Unrest -Liverpool to Ballymote, Ireland, 1831
- House renovations in Staffordshire 1831: J. Watson to Mr Ward, solicitor
- America — Land of Opportunity: New York to London, 1832
- Scottish Clergyman to English M.P. in 1832
- Vestry Interest — Real Estate Dealings: Swinstead – 1832
- Desperate pleas for financial aid: Mrs Belcher, 1831 & 1834
- Thomas Hiron — The Marble House: 1834
- Tours in France to Kennington, Surrey England 1834
- Sir James Grant: Scottish Landlord, in Carlisle — 1834
- Sir Harry Verney — an able and caring politician to Edward Brayley — author, 1834
- Reverend T. Simpson Evans — Curate and educator, London 1835
- Lady Campbell, Barcaldine, The Australian Connection: 1835
- Early short-hand: William Miles of Bristol to Mr Hubert Edy of Ledbury, Herefordshire: 1836
- Jamaica v Scotland, 1837
- Capt. Shippard, Half Pay Officer,1837
- London, Paris, Valparaiso and Sydney, 1837
- 'Where there’s a will, there’s a way': London 1837
- William Innes in Edinburgh to Capt Duff in London, 1838
- London to Yoxall, new Queen — Victoria: 1838
- introduction
- transcript
- background information
- postal markings
- Doom & Gloom in 1838
- Mr Thornton, Bricklayers Arms, Hoxton, London 1838
- London to Devon, 1839
- Joseph Lister: A Quaker family in Ipswich, England, 1840
- Joseph Lister — genealogical information and family links
- Post Office Money Order: Bootle, 1841
- Fraser & Vans Agnew, Scotland, 1843
- Broom Cottage, Hathersage, Derbyshire, 1845
- Shetland Islands: 1847
- Home thoughts from Abroad — Baroda, India 1850
- Cholera in England and America 1855
- Talyllyn to Rome — 1859
17 April 2007