Autograph Note Signed ‘Thos. Waghorn’, to C.Roach Smith at 5 Liverpool Street, asking “Pray step over a minute” by WAGHORN, Thomas Fletcher
by WAGHORN, Thomas Fletcher
Autograph Note Signed Thos. Waghorn, to C.Roach Smith at 5 Liverpool Street, asking Pray step over a minute
by WAGHORN, Thomas Fletcher
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Undated. 4 x 8 inches, in good condition. An uncommon autograph. Thomas Fletcher Waghorn (18001850), postal pioneer who developed a new route from Great Britain to India. He set up an agency in Cornhill, London, for conveying postand passengersto India via Egypt. Between 1835 and 1837 he lived among Arabs in the desert and laid the foundations for the overland route across the desert from Cairo to Suez. This involved building rest-houses and supplying guides, boats, horses and carriages for travellers. Later Waghorn turned his attention to speeding the post in Europe, through the new railway system. Charles Roach Smith (1807-90), antiquary and archaeologist.
- Bookseller Julian Browning Rare Books & Manuscripts (GB)
- Book Condition Used
- Place of Publication Undated