Punch,  19 (1850), 29.

What a Person May Do on a Sunday in the Country, and What He May Not Do

Anon

Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Telegraphy


    Notes the likelihood of receiving messages by electric telegraph but the impossibility of receiving 'those same messages, if folded up in a penny letter and sent through the Puritanical channel of St. Martin's-le-Grand [the site of the General Post Office]'.



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