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LevelItem
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)LAdd/1639
TitleLetter from W. A. Roberts to Slade Baker
Extent1 item
Date1818
DescriptionDiscusses general business matters and local affairs. Roberts asks Baker to keep him up to date on both his private and public affairs in the town. He asks about his father and notes that many people believe parliament will be dissolved the second week in June.

[Parliament was dissolved on 10 June 1818. W. A. Roberts' father, an attorney, was the most influential member of the Bewdley corporation. At the election of 1818, W. A. Roberts was returned as MP for the borough. He held the seat until 1832].
Access StatusOpen
Publication NoteSee entries for 'Roberts, Wilson Aylesbury (1770-1853)' and 'Bewdley' in R. Thorne ed., The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820, (1986), available at http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/

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