...established, and before it became a rage, as I took great interest in their use and extension, as I believe 1 was the first who proposed, in 1834, the system of...having satisfied my own mind that the great cost of the Post-Office was not the reception, carriage, and delivery of the letters, but the complicated system...

...the British Museum, states, in the preface to his Catalogue of Postage Stamps, that he believes he was the first who proposed, in 1834, the system of...small uniform rate of postage to be prepaid by stamps, and that it was "in fact the mere application of the system used with regard to newspapers to letters...

...introduction lo his Hand (otología о/ postage slumps. Gray had claimed to be the first to propose 'the system of a small uniform rate of postage to be pre-paid by stamps' J. F,. Gray 18621', p. viii:. Repealed in die Athenäum, 13 December 1862. p. 768. the claim elicited...