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• Correspondence on the proposed Canadian fast mail service addressed to the postmaster-general and to the "Times". (s.n.], 1894), by Allan Line (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dominion Line royal mail steamships, sailing weekly from Montreal and Quebec for Liverpool and fortnightly for Bristol, Avonmouth Dock .. (s.n., 1888), by Dominion Line (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speeches of Hon. Edward Blake, M.P., on mail contracts, &c. Tuesday, May 12th, 1890. (B. Chamberlin, 1890), by Edward Blake (page images at HathiTrust)
• Papers in reference to Atlantic steamship line between Canada and Great Britain (S.E. Dawson, 1894), by Canada. Dept. of the Secretary of State (page images at HathiTrust)
• Papers in reference to Atlantic steamship line between Great Britain and Canada. First session, eighth Parliament. (Printed by S. E. Dawson, 1896), by Canada. Dept. of the Secretary of State (page images at HathiTrust)

• The origin of the ocean mail steamers between Liverpool and the St. Lawrence and the advantages of the northern route (s.n.], 1877), by John Young (page images at HathiTrust)

• Minute of council of British Columbia Board of Trade re China-Japan mail steamship service. (s.n., 1888), by British Columbia Board of Trade (page images at HathiTrust)

• Facts acknowledged! A. G. Jones as a monopolist as well as a boodler!! (s.n., 1887), by A. G. Jones and A. G. Jones and Co (page images at HathiTrust)

• Halifax, Nova Scotia to Blacksod the shortest, the safest, and the best route for mails and passengers between the Dominion of Canada and Great Britain (M.H. Gill, 1895), by Oceanus (page images at HathiTrust)

• Copy of contract between Hugh Allan & the postmaster-general, for a weekly line of ocean steamers to carry the mails between Liverpool and Canada, from 1st April, 1860 to the 1st January, 1867 (s.n., 1860), by Hugh Allan (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Mail liners of the world (D. Appleton-Century company, incorporated, 1937), by Alan L. Cary (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ocean steam navigation and the ocean post. (D. Appleton & co.;, 1858), by Thomas Rainey (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Few suggestions respecting the United States Steam Mail Service. ([publisher not identified], 1850) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die deutschen Reichspostdampferlinien nach Ostasien und Australien in zwanzigjährigem Betriebe; Eine wirtschaftspolitische Studie. (E.S. Mittler, 1906), by Paul August Ferdinand Neubaur (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Reply of H.B. Plant to misstatements in the public document entitled "Trade and transportation between the United States and Spanish America, by William Eleroy Curtis," concerning the West Indian fast mail via Tampa, Key West and Havana, and the Plant Steamship Line. ([New York, 1889), by Henry Bradley Plant, William Eleroy Curtis, and Plant Steamship Line (page images at HathiTrust)
• Communication with the Egyptian Soudan by the Congo : in a letter to the Postmaster General / Talbot collection of British pamphlets (Printed by R.J. Clark, Stationer, &c., 16, High Street, 1884), by Arthur Cotton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Further development of American merchant marine and ocean mail contracts : hearings ... Seventy-first Congress, second session on H.R. 8361 ... and H.R. 9592 ... (U.S. Govt, print. off., 1930), by United States Senate Committee on Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• De l'insaisissabilité dans les rapports internationaux des navires affectés au service postal. (Paris, 1885), by Hippolyte Guillibert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the committee appointed to investigate the affairs of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, October 12, 1854. (New-York : George F. Nesbitt and Co., printers, corner Wall and Water Streets, 1854., 1854), by Pacific Mail Steamship Company and George F. Nesbitt & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post, by Thomas Rainey (Gutenberg ebook)

• Notice sur la navigation transatlantique des paquebots interocéaniques ou recherches sur les routes de plus court trajet d'Europe à Saint-Jean de Nicaragua et retour (Dalmont et Dunod, 1859), by François Antoine Édouard Keller (page images at HathiTrust)

• Post office gazetteer of the dominion of Canada (s.n.], 1872), by William M. White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Post Office gazetteer of the Dominion of Canada (s.n.], 1872), by William White (page images at HathiTrust)

• A general plan for a mail communication by steam, between Great Britain and the eastern and western parts of the world (B. Fellowes, 1838), by James MacQueen (page images at HathiTrust)
• An abstract of the proceedings of the Select Committee of the House of Commons, appointed session, 1849, to inquire into the contract packet service; in so far as the same relates to the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company; with an introductory statement and remarks. Presented to the court of directors. Abstracted and printed for the information of the proprietors of the company. ([London?], 1849), by Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee to Inquire into the Contract Packet Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• The royal mail to Ireland ; or, An account of the origin and development of the post between London and Ireland through Holyhead, and the use of the line of communication by travellers. (E. Arnold, 1917), by Edward Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Articles of agreement made this 1st day of January in the year of Our Lord 1852 between the commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (for and on behalf of Her Majesty) of the one part and Samuel Cunard of Halifax ... George Burns of Glasgow ... Charles McIver of Liverpool .. (s.n., 1852), by Charles McIver, Samuel Cunard, George Burns, and Great Britain Admiralty (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Abstract of the Proceedings of the Select Committee of the House of Commons, Appointed Session, 1849, to Inquire Into the Contract Packet Service, by Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee to Inquire into the Contract Packet Service (Gutenberg ebook)
• A General Plan for a Mail Communication by Steam, Between Great Britain and the Eastern and Western Parts of the World, by James MacQueen (Gutenberg ebook)

• La marina postale. (Presso la libreria editrice Galli, di C. Chiesa e F. Guindani, 1893), by Giorgio Molli (page images at HathiTrust)

• Een gelukkig levensteeken. De proeftocht der eerste mailboot van Vlissingen naar Sheerness, beschreven door een tochtgenoot; met eenige bijlagen betreffende den nieuwen maildienst. (F. Kleeuwens & Zoon, 1875), by S. Piccardt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of the committee appointed to investigate the affairs of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, October 12, 1854. (New-York : George F. Nesbitt and Co., printers, corner Wall and Water Streets, 1854., 1854), by Pacific Mail Steamship Company and George F. Nesbitt & Co (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of the Naval Committee to the House of Representatives, August, 1850, In Favor of the Establishment of a Line of Mail Steamships to the Western Coast of Africa, and Thence Via the Mediterranean to London (Washington: Gideon and Co., 1850), by United States House Committee on Naval Affairs
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• United States mail steam-ships. : Facts respectfully submitted to the consideration of the Congress of the United States. ([New York, 1850), by George Law (page images at HathiTrust)
• Investigation of air mail and ocean mail contracts. (U. S. Govt. print. off., 1933), by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Air and Ocean Mail Contracts (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Few suggestions respecting the United States Steam Mail Service. ([publisher not identified], 1850) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of Naval Committee on establishing a line of mail steamships to the Western Coast of Africa, and thence via the Mediterranean to London (Printed by Gideon and co., 1850), by United States House Committee on Naval Affairs and American Colonization Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gold rush steamers of the Pacific (The Grabhorn Press, 1938), by Ernest A. Wiltsee and Grabhorn Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ocean mail service (S. 6708) Hearings before the Committee on the Post office and post roads, House of representatives ... February, 1911. Sixty-first Congress, third session. (Govt. Print. Off., 1911), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Post Roads (page images at HathiTrust)
• Investigation of air mail and ocean mail contracts ... : report ... <Pursuant to S. Res. 349 (72d Cong.)> (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1934), by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Air and Ocean Mail Contracts and Hugo LaFayette Black (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the establishment of a line of mail steamers; from the western coast of the United States, on the Pacific, to China. (Boston Journal Office, 1855), by R. B. Forbes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report. (Govt. Print. Off., in the 19th century), by United States. Post Office Department. Division of Foreign Mails (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Naval Committee to the House of Representatives, August 1850 in favor of the establishment of a line of mail steamships to the western coast of Africa and thence via the Mediterranean to London, designed to promote the emigration of free persons of color from the United States to Liberia : also to increase the steam navy and to extend the commerce of the United States, with an appendix added by the American Colonization Society. (s.n.], 1850), by American Colonization Society and United States House Committee on Naval Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sale of the American-Oriental Mail Line by the U.S. Shipping Board : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Sixty-Ninth Congress, first session, May 3-8, 10, 11, 1926. (U.S. G.P.O., 1926), by United States Senate Committee on Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ocean mail contracts : hearings before the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Seventy-first Congress, second session, on H. R. 8715, a bill to amend Section 407 of Title IV of the Merchant Marine Act of 1928. January 22, 1930. (U.S. Govt. print. off, 1930), by United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter of Mr. John Roach to the Postmaster-general, suggesting the experiment of advertising for proposals of the lowest rates for the transportation of the United States mails at which the merchants and capitalists of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New Orleans will establish and maintain American Steamship lines from those cities to European ports. (Gibson Brothers, Printers, 1876), by John Roach and Seymour B. Durst (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ocean mail service ... Report. <To accompany S. 6708.> (Govt. Print. Off., 1910), by United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Jacob Harold Gallinger, and United States. Congress 1909-1910). Senate (page images at HathiTrust)
• Development of the American ocean mail service and American commerce. (G.P.O., 1908), by United States Senate Committee on Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Steam communication between San Francisco and China. (J.W. Amerman, Printer, 1860), by New York Chamber of Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mail steamships : letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting information in reference to mail steamship ... . (s.n., 1852), by United States. Congress. House 1851-1852) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the naval committee to the House of Representatives, August, 1850, in favor of the establishment of a line of mail steamships to the western coast of Africa, and thence via the Mediterranean to London; designed to promote the emigration of free persons of color from the United States to Liberia: also to increase the steam navy, and to extend the commerce of the United States. : With an appendix added by the American Colonization Society., by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Naval Affairs, contrib. by American Colonization Society (Gutenberg ebook)

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