| Level | Item |
| Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure) | LAdd/1639 |
| Title | Letter from W. A. Roberts to Slade Baker |
| Extent | 1 item |
| Date | 1818 |
| Description | Discusses 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 Status | Open |
| Publication Note | See 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/ |