GEORGE BELL AND SONS, YORK STREET

OF
SIR HENRY COLE, K.C.B.

ACCOUNTED FOR IN HIS DEEDS

SPEECHES AND WRITINGS.
“ WHATSOEVER THY HAND FINDETH TO DO, DO IT WITH THY MIGHT.”

ECCLESIASTES, IX. 10.
IN TWO VOLUMES

VOL. II.
LONDON

COVENT GARDEN

MDCCCLXXXIV

CHISWICK PRESS :-C. WHITTINGHAM AND CO., TOOKS COURT,

CHANCERY LANE.

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Parliaments of our ancestors, an article in the “Westminster Review”.

1-17
Reform in printing evidence taken before the House of Commons Com-
mittees, a pamphlet printed anonymously

18-23

Committees of the House of Commons-Administration by large num-

bers, an article in the “London and Westminster Review”. 24-35

History of the Public Records, an article in the " Penny Cyclopædia”. 36-50

On the perilous state and neglect of the Public Records, an article in the

“Westminster Review”

List of publications connected with the Record Commission and Public

Records, by Henry Cole

63-66

Henry the Eighth's scheme of Bishopricks—Extracts from the Prefatory

Remarks

67-81

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51-62

APPENDIX I. TO PUBLIC RECORDS.

Speech of Charles Buller, Esq., M.P. for Liskeard, on Public Records. 82-89

APPENDIX II.

Privilege of Parliamentary proceedings.-Sir Francis Palgrave's Petition

to the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Record

Commission.

89-91

APPENDIX III.

Mr. Braidwood on fires, copy of a letter to Henry Cole, Esq.

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Illustrative collection of materials for the agitation for Penny Postage 104-105

List of the papers issued under the direction of the Mercantile Committee

on Postage

105-106

Specimens of some of the Petitions prepared and distributed . 106-108

Essay on Stamps, a letter addressed to the Lords Commissioners of Her

Majesty's Treasury, by Henry Cole

109-142

Engraving of first letter-weight made for the Penny Postage

142

Work with the Anti-Corn Law League, arising out of Uniform Penny

Postage.

143-146

RAILWAYS AND DOCKS.

Specimens of Railway Charts

147-148

Break of gauge at Gloucester by H. J. Townsend

149

Jeames on the gauge question

150-157

List of books, maps, &c., illustrative of Lincolnshire and the route to

Great Grimsby, &c.

157

Order of ceremonies for laying the first stone of Great Grimsby

Docks

158-159

WORK WITH TECHNICAL ARTS AND ART

MANUFACTURES.

Felix Summerly's Home Treasury of Books .

Experiments in Technical Processes

Albert Dürer's “Small Passion ” edited by Henry Cole

Summerly's Art Manufactures

Woodcuts from Felix Summerly's “ Handbook to Hampton Court'

Extracts from Summerly's “ Handbook to Westminster Abbey"

160-162

162-165

166-177

178-194

195-196

197-207

WORK WITH INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS.

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Extracts from the Preface to the Catalogue of the Exhibition of 1851 208-220

Extracts from First Report of Commissioners for the Exhibition of

1851

220, 225-227, 230-231

Letter of Mr. Drew addressed to His Royal Highness Prince Albert on

the contract for the Exhibition of 1851

221-224

Letter from Colonel Phipps to Mr. Drew on the contract

224

H. Cole's Report on the security of the building of the Exhibition from

fire

227-230

Extract from the “ London Gazette," Tuesday, October 28, 1851 231-232

Lecture on the international results of the Exhibition of 1851, by Henry

Cole

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