Signed ('J. Henniker Heaton') Letter, in a secretarial hand, to A. M. Tapp.

12mo: 3 pp. Good, but with the leaves of the bifolium separated, and reattached with three tissue mounts. 'It is impossible to trace the obstructiveness of the Postal department to any particular officials; they stand shoulder to shoulder, defiant and impenetrable, like a square of infantry'. Nevertheless Heaton has 'succeeded in getting some reforms of importance inserted in the Post Office Acts Amendment Bill'. Mentions 'permission to send circulars in unclosed envelopes' and briefly discusses the postage of newspapers to the Colonies. Concludes that it is 'only a question of time; and I will never rest until all the postal regulations are inspired by common sense, and bare justice.'