7/7/2023 The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Regency and Victorian ... by Kristine HughesRead Now![]() ![]() Envelopes were not used until later in the century, correspondents instead using a folded sheet of paper to enclose the letter. In 1801, the rate was 1 penny per sheet, but by 1805 it had risen to 3 pence, and the responsibility for payment rested not with the sender but with the receiver ( The Writer’s Guide to everyday Life in Regency and Victorian England, Kristine Hughes, p. The Royal Mail was generally very reliable, but for various reasons, including the necessary cost of countering the dangerous enterprise of footpads, the cost of postage was relatively high. MS 28, Box 1, Folder 27.Īs Miss Fishguard, in a conscientious determination to save Kitty the cost of receiving a second sheet, had crossed her lines closely, the task of deciphering the whole was very nearly impossible. ![]() A crossed letter from Robert Ker Porter to Anna Maria Porter.Ĥ April 1806. ![]()
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