Introduction | p. 5 |
General Acknowledgements | p. 7 |
Acknowledgements for Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4 | p. 8 |
The Corsinis and the Italian Community in London. The City and its Trade. | p. 9 |
The Correspondence. Philip Beale. A Listing of Goods Traded and Other Aspects Concerning the Corsini Business Extracted from the Four Main Auction Catalogues with Lot Numbers. | p. 16 |
Reading the English Letters. Before the Corsini Correspondence. Materials and Conservation. Dates. Numbers. Coinage. Customs Duties. Punctuation. Handwriting and Transcripts. | p. 41 |
The Postal Services Available to the Corsinis in London. | p. 49 |
The Mapping of Elizabethan London and the Corsini Residence. | p. 55 |
Letters from Towns in the British Isles. The Database. | p. 65 |
Description of the Letters from the British Isles. | p. 98 |
European Postal Services in the Late Sixteenth Century: The Correspondence, Charges and Routes. | p. 124 |
Illustrations of Letters with Comments. | p. 144 |
Glossary for Chapters 8 and 9 | p. 176 |
Appendices | |
Spreadsheet of Towns of Origin of G-rated Letters in the Archive. | p. 178 |
The G Symbol and Writing the 1/2. Mike Scott Archer. | p. 182 |
Other Examples of Early European Postal Charges. | p. 184 |
Dallmeier Thurn und Taxis Studien 9/II. | p. 189 |
The House of Fugger 1400-1650 and its Posts. | p. 192 |
A Listing of Examples of Merchant Families' Signs. From the collection of Bryan Wood with four other illustrations. | p. 200 |
Examples of Signs Used by Forwarding Agents. | p. 216 |
Index | p. 219 |
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