Errata
Postal History
of the Spanish Philippines, 1565 - 1898
Don Peterson & Geoffrey Lewis
During the computer transfer of our word-processing files to the word-processing
format required by the printer, some symbol characters were incorrectly transcribed.
Page 7. Left half Paragraph 5 and Right half Paragraph 3. Change to: La Coruña
Page 15. Left half 2nd last Paragraph. Change to: NUEVA ESPAÑA
Chapter V. The symbol for ¼ was printed as 3, and the symbol for ½
was printed as 2.
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Page 47, Left half, Paragraph 4. Change from: 8 pence per 3 ounce Change
to: 8 pence per ¼ ounce
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Page 47, Left half, Paragraph 5. Change from: up to 3 ounce Change
to: up to ¼ ounce
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Page 47, Right half, Paragraph 2. Change from: between 3 and 2 ounce
Change to: between ¼ and ½ ounce
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Page 47, Right half, Last Paragraph. Change from: four pence inland per 2
ounce Change to: four pence inland per ½ ounce
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Page 48, Left half, 2nd Line. Change from: per 2 ounce Change to:
per ½ ounce
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Page 48, Left half, 2nd last Paragraph. Change from: 8 pence for a single
letter up to 2 ounce Change to: 8 pence for a single letter up to ½
ounce
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Page 48, Right half, 3rd last Paragraph. Change from: (over 2 ounce up
to one ounce) Change to: (over ½ ounce up to one ounce)
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Page 54, Table V-3. Change from: 8d. 2 ounce (1). Change to: 8d.
½ ounce (1)
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Page 54, Note (1). Change from: 8d. for up to 2 ounce Change to:
8d. for up to ½ ounce
Page 109, Left half, 1st Paragraph. Change sentence to: These rates
were expressed in the Philippine currency, reales plata, which was worth more
than the Spanish currency, reales vellon.
Page 126, Table XI-1; 1864 line.
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Change from: 2/8c (Regular Double) Change to: 6 2/8c
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Change from: 2 1/8c (Total Single/Reg.) Change to: 28 1/8c
Page 138, USA Line. Change from: 0/2/1/2 (s/d column) Change to: 2 / 2½
(2 shillings 2½ pence)
At several places A, @ were printed instead of quote marks, e.g.
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Page 151, Right half, Paragraph 1. Change from: AMUESTRAS@ Change to:
“MUESTRA”
Page 153, Table XIII-1. Change from: 172c (Registered Single column) Change
to: 17½c
Page 155, Table XIII-2. Change from: C (in Registered Rates) Change to:
-, a dash, indicating that no examples are known of this rate and no information
is available about the rates.
February 10, 2001.
