Gallows letter
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gallows-letter-287-3850118
title:
Gallows letter
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In postal history, a gallows letter was a letter with a "gallows" mark meaning "very quickly". Gallows letters were official letters or dispatches used by the Privy Council of Elizabeth I of England. To express an extreme degree of urgency of delivery, the letter had on the address panel a rough drawing of a gallows. Sometimes the picture included a hanging body. These drawings could also have repeated written directions as "haste haste", "post haste", "haste for life", "for life haste", etc. Th
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Letter to be delivered quickly in postal history
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallows_letter
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2023-08-17T07:38:10Z
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