Part 3 (2/2)

Those to which I am more particularly indebted are:--In Scotland--

The ”Dundee Advertiser,” a consistent support during a past lengthened period, including powerful leading articles and notices.

The ”Montrose Standard,” several cordial and able articles of the highest value, while the same is to be gratefully noticed of the other Forfars.h.i.+re papers.

The ”Brechin Advertiser,” the ”Forfar Herald,” the ”Arbroath Guide,” the ”Montrose Review.”

The ”North British Daily Mail,” of Glasgow, in a leading article headed ”A Neglected Inventor,” after stating the case, goes on to say: ”It is not creditable to the generosity of the Government of this country that an important invention of this kind, which has conferred such a great boon upon the public, should have remained so long unacknowledged and unrewarded.” This article has been extensively reproduced.

The ”Glasgow News” and the ”Christian Leader,” of Glasgow, cordial articles.

The ”Paisley Herald,” the same on several occasions.

The ”Aberdeen Free Press,” a warm and able support.

The ”Blairgowrie Advertiser” has taken much interest and pains to support me; also the ”Perths.h.i.+re Const.i.tutional,” the ”Fifes.h.i.+re Journal,” the ”North British Advertiser,” to all of which my best thanks are due.

In the Metropolis and neighbourhood, considering how short a period has elapsed since the opinion has been almost unanimously expressed that the reformed Penny Postage scheme was the ”sole and undisputed invention of Sir Rowland Hill,” to whom has also been erroneously attributed the invention and proposal as well as the ultimate adoption of the adhesive stamp, fair progress has already been made in obtaining a recognition of Mr. Chalmers' services. That greater progress has not been made may be attributed to the powerful influences which have been at work to stifle the whole subject, including an attempt on the part of Mr. Pearson Hill to stop the publication of pamphlets.

In the ”Ill.u.s.trated London News” Mr. G. A. Sala writes: ”It seems tolerably clear that Sir Rowland Hill was not the inventor, in the strict sense of the term, either of the Penny Postage or of the Adhesive Postage Stamp ... Anent the invention of the Adhesive Stamp, a pamphlet has recently been published, but I have not yet had time to read it....

Whoever discovered the Adhesive Stamp, the discovery has socially revolutionised the world.” According to this high authority, the Adhesive Stamp was thus at least _not_ the invention of Sir Rowland Hill.

The ”Whitehall Review” has given me consistent and most valuable support; also the ”Metropolitan,” the ”People,” the ”Home and Colonial Mail.” The ”Machinery Market,” of London and Darlington, a practical monthly journal of high position, while retaining all its former admiration for Sir Rowland Hill's services, decides, in a long and able article, in favour of James Chalmers as respects the stamp. The ”Inventors' Record,” in an article on ”Disputed Inventions,” supports the same view. The pretensions brought forward on the part of Sir Rowland Hill are declared to be wholly groundless, and the invention accorded to James Chalmers.

The ”Croydon Review,” a monthly, in a series of able articles, has informed its readers candidly with respect to the untenable pretensions of Sir Rowland Hill, both as respects the scheme and the stamp, cordially ascribing the latter to James Chalmers.

The ”Surrey Independent” has ably supported me in several leading articles. As far as conception went, ”Sir Rowland Hill displayed a remarkable facility for picking other people's brains.”

To the ”Surrey Comet” and ”Wimbledon Courier” my best thanks are due for cordial notices and recognition; as also to the ”West Middles.e.x Advertiser,” the ”South Hampstead Advertiser,” the ”North Middles.e.x Advertiser,” the ”Christian Union,” the ”Hornsey and Finsbury Park Journal,” the ”American Bookseller,” the ”Acton and Chiswick Gazette,”

”Figaro,” ”Vanity Fair,” the ”Kensington News,” ”Life,” and others.

From the Provincial Press, much valuable support has been given me:--

The ”Oldham Chronicle” and ”Rastrick Gazette” have written often and ably on the subject, supported by such papers as the ”Bradford Observer,” the ”Western Daily Press,” of Bristol, the ”Bristol Gazette,”

the ”Norwich Argus,” the ”Brighton Herald,” the ”Brighton Argus,” the ”Dover and County Chronicle,” the ”Colchester Chronicle,” the ”Stratford and South Ess.e.x Advertiser,” the ”Ess.e.x Standard,” the ”Bradford Times,”

the ”Burnley Express,” the ”Barnsley Times,” the ”Wigan Observer,” the ”Stockport Advertiser,” the ”Yorks.h.i.+re Gazette,” the ”Westmoreland Gazette,” the ”Wakefield and West Riding Herald,” the ”Frome Times,” the ”Man of Ross,” the ”Totnes Times,” the ”Banner of Wales,” the ”West Bromwich Free Press,” the ”Swinton and Pendlebury Times,” the ”Accrington Gazette,” the ”Birkenhead News,” the ”Brighton Standard,”

the ”Hastings Observer,” the ”Newcastle Courant,” the ”Preston Chronicle,” the ”Monmouths.h.i.+re Beacon,” the ”Lydney Observer,” the ”West of England Observer,” the ”Cardiff Free Press,” the ”Monmouths.h.i.+re Chronicle,” the ”Eskdale and Liddlesdale Advertiser,” the ”Irvine Express,” the ”Surrey Advertiser,” the ”Printers' Register,” the ”Newcastle Examiner,” the ”Malvern News,” and others, with articles sympathetically copied into the ”Brighton Guardian,” the ”Aberdeen Journal,” the ”Dundee Courier,” the ”Edinburgh Courant,” the ”Liverpool Albion,” the ”Building and Engineering Times” of London,” &c.

The late Sir Thomas Nelson, Solicitor to the Corporation of the City of London, writes:--

”HAMPTON WICK, _6th February, 1883_.

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