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y! One of the principal edifices which stooc on the site of the present War Office and was demolished, was long known as Carington House, a large square white building, if my memory serves me aright.

WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

Q. V. was, I fear, misinformed as there is jao apparent justification for the claim that "the present weighty building in Whitehall covers the site of the building in which the War Department was first housed when it became an independent entity." As a .development of the " Ordnance Office " it originated in the plain brick building behind .an iron railing in Pall Mall, " originally built by Buckingham for the Duke of York, brother of George III." (vide Wheatley's ' Roundabout Piccadilly and Pall Mall, ' p. 336). The War Department vacated their premises subsequent to the Boer War. The Horse Guards in Whitehall, built about 1753 by Vardy, must be considered the ^earliest War Department building as an administrative centre,

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

LONDON POSTMARKS (12 S. vii. 290). Much information will be found in 'The History of the Early Postmarks of the British Isles,' by John G. Hendy, London, Upcott Gill, Bazaar Buildings, Drury Lane, 1905. nit contains many reproductions of early postmarks, including some mentioning "Sunday deliveries, and is authoritative. The writer was Curator of the Record Room, General Post Office.

W. H. WHITEAR.

The only book on the subject that I have xjome across is 'The History of the Early Postmarks of the British Isles, ' by John G. Hendy, Curator of the Record Room, G.P.O., published by L. Upcott Gill in 1905. It may 'interest your correspondent to know that 'this Library contains a very complete -collection of early postmarks made by Mrs. Brushfield, the wife of Dr. T. IS. Brushfield, .the well-known Ralegh -scholar.

H. TAPLEY-SOPER. Exeter City Library.

It is quite possible for a letter to be post- -marked on a Sunday in 1816 as the system of date marks was in use considerably earlier than that (since 1796). There is an extensive literature on the subject consisting of books, pamphlets and articles in various magazines a large amount of study and research Slaving been devoted to this branch of

philately. The standard works on the subjects are ' The History of the Early Postmarks of the British Isles,' by John G. Hendy, and 'The Postmarks of the British Isles from 1840 to 1876,' by the same author.

WILLIAM GILBERT, F.R.N.S.

There is an admirable book on Postmarks, by John G. Hendy, entitled 'A History of the Early Postmarks of the British Isles ' (London, 1905, 12mo). Mr. Hendy says that no mail was ever sent out on Sunday between 1799 and about 1840 or later, but letters received after the Saturday despatch and before 5 A.M. on Monday were stamped with a Sunday postmark (S. or Sun). He gives a facsimile of one bearing " SUN | Sp-6 | 1816," Sept. 6, 1816. FAMA.

, There is a small book on the subject of postmarks, and several articles thereon have appeared in the various philatelic magazines, from the editors of which fuller information can be had. But whether they deal with 1816, a date long before the introduction of adhesive stamps, I am unable to say from memory. The hon. secretary of any good philatelic society would be able to help. W. JAGGARD, Capt.

The History of the

Early Postmarks of the

British Isles. From their

Introduction Down to 1840.

With Special Eemarks on and Reference

To the Sections of the Postal Service to

which they Particularly Applied Compiled

chiefly From official Kecords.

Including Sunday Stamps.

September 6, 1816. By John G. Hendy, Curator of the Record Room, General Post Office.

London.

Published by L. Upcott Gill, Bazaar Buildings, Drury Lane, W.C., 1905. 3/- net.

LEONARD C. PRICE.

WILLIAM BROWN, ADMIRAL IN THE SERVICE OF THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC (12 S. vii. 249). For a short account of this Admiral see the 'D.N.B.,' which does not however give the following dates or facts : He was the son of a small farmer at Foxford, co. Mayo, Ireland, and was born there on June 22, 1777. He went to Pennsylvania in 1786. He commanded the Buenos Ayres fleet in the war against Brazil from Jan. 12, 1826, to 1828. He died at Barracas, near Buenos Ayres, May 3, 1857.

H. G. HARRISON.