In this work, Patrick Chalmers claimed that his father, James Chalmers, was the inventor of the postage stamp. He stated that James Chalmers first produced an essay for a stamp in August 1834 and kept campaigning to gain recognition for his father as the inventor of the postage stamp until he died in 1891.

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