"This collection of material about the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company and Royal Mail Lines, Limited comprises a wide range of items, both written and graphic, which are no longer generally available to the public. Much of it, in fact, was never freely available to the general public. The Scrapbook is not intended to be a history of Royal Mail, but provides information and pictures which include previously published material. This includes much of the text of The Royal Mail War Book 1914-18 (by H W Leslie), and the whole of Royal Mail 1839-1939 and Eight Bells (both by T A Bushell), all of which are now very rare. A fourth book, A Link of Empire, covering the years 1839 to 1909, was privately published and was never freely available, and so a large portion of its contents are reproduced in the Scrapbook. .... In addition to written information there are documents which display photographs and other illustrations, postcards and printed matter, providing by far the most comprehensive coverage of Company documentation ever compiled."--P. i.