ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the form of warfare also extended into epistolary space; whose existence during the Restoration Cynthia Wall fleetingly acknowledges in her description of the new 'abstract spaces produced by public credit, the postal system, the new network of roads'. It deals with a brief discussion of the development of the Post Office over the course of the Restoration. As a result James II lost one of the first 'wars' to take place in epistolary space to a group of unknown enemies headed by his own personal secretary in Ratisbon, the rabidly puritanical Hugo Hughes. A glance at the number of guides to writing letters appearing on the shelves of the business section in any bookshop will adequately prove this. The courtly enclave was filled in by reference to a host of other London figures and places. The stances and manners that were struck in epistolary space were very similar to those struck in real life.
