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 You are certainly tireless about postal reform, and have good reason to be gratified with what you have already obtained.

In this year 1916, it is not too much to hope that a few months' time will see the adoption of this necessary reform.

In 1908 H. H. achieved another triumph in the introduction of penny postage to the United States. The battle was not won without a long and weary campaign. In 1890 he visited America to confer with the Postmaster-General, the Honourable John Wanamaker, on the possibility of establishing an Anglo-America Penny Post. The final adoption was largely due to Mr Wanamaker's advocacy and practical help long after he had ceased to be Postmaster-General. The names of Mr Roosevelt, Mr Andrew Carnegie, the American Ambassador, Mr Whitelaw Reid, Lord Blyth, Mr Baxter, and last and chief, Mr Meyer, will be held in grateful memory by the letter-writing public of the two nations.

On July 3rd, 1906, a deputation of 108 members of the House of Commons, 24 ex-Members, Senator the Hon. Nicholas Longworth of the United States, many Peers, Bankers, and Presidents of Chamber of Commerce assembled in the Grand Committee Room of the House of Commons to meet the Right Hon. H. H. Asquith, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Right Hon. Sydney Buxton, M.P., Postmaster-General. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Postmaster-