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 country, such as the U.S.A., has to be consulted and persuaded) have all to be found and to synchronize, in order to carry it through.

As Browning says:

The difficulty in postal reforms is the same; but nevertheless reforms are carried through.

I am so glad to hear—even in strict confidence—that you are in favour of confining circulars to printed matter.

All our troubles come from a departure from that principle; and I hope you will at once bring your great influence to bear in that direction.

Lord Londonderry and I have spent some time this morning in looking out a site here for the statue which the Post Office will at once erect in your honour.

If it is not possible to follow the traditional path from "China to Peru," it is at all events possible to include letters from the Legations of China and Mexico:

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I write to thank you for your letter and for the pamphlets which you have been so good as to send me.

I am in entire agreement with you that it would be of great service to my country to have a universal