Letters And Papers including letters from Henry Stuart, relating to an invitation to stand in the Conservative interest for the borough of Bedford at the next election, Jan. (L17/1, 7), Alfred Mallalieu, editor of the Merthyr Guardian (L17/14, 322, 386 et seq.), Sir Charles Shaw, Manchester police commissioner (L17/48, 211), Rev. Moses Mitchell (L17/84, 132), Mrs P. O. Rossi, widow of Charles Rossi, sculptor (L17/115), Edward Lockwood, secretary of the Bedfordshire Board of Education (L17/164), Dr John Kaye, bishop of Lincoln (L17/191, 250, 263 et seq.), Francis, seventh duke of Bedford (L17/215, 221), Samuel Gordon of Dublin, secretary of the Irish Protestant Tenantry Society (L17/217), William Howley, archbishop of Canterbury (L17/254), Onesipherous Tyndall-Bruce of Falkland Palace (L17/340, 377), J[ames] Ingram, president of Trinity College (L17/348), Hugh Percy, third duke of Northumberland, applying for Lord Bute's vote in the election for Chancellor of Cambridge University, on the death of the Marquis of Camden (L17/354), Joseph Snow, former editor of the Merthyr Guardian (L17/392) and J. W. Poundley, agricultural advisor (L17/401). The letters include references to the Merthyr Guardian, Jan. - Nov. (L17/10, 14, 20 et seq.), including that the Penny Post is hurting all newspapers in that adverts that formerly went to the papers are being sent through the post as circulars, Nov. (L17/386), letter seeking Lord Bute's advice on improving the navigation of the river Mersey and getting bonded warehouses in Manchester, Lancashire, Feb. (L17/48), the Taff Vale Railway Bill, March (L17/95), an offer to sell cabinet portraits of Lord Bute and his two brothers by [Allen] Lindsay, March (L17/106), report on the state of the Church of England's General Assembly's Foreign Missions to Calcutta, Bombay and Madras, India, May (L17/139), the state of the police in Bolton and Manchester, Lancashire, July (L17/211), the formation of the Bedfordshire Conservative Association, July - Sept. (L17/215, 221, 265 et seq.), an application in favour of the widow and children of John Williams, missionary, murdered in Erromanga in the South Seas, July (L17/216), a painting of Lady Mills by Sir James Reynolds stolen, Aug. (L17/260), the proposed London and Manchester Railway through Bedford, Aug. - Sept. (L17/275, 279, 293 et seq.), mention of a large legacy left by Mr Day, blacking manufacturer, left for the benefit of the indigent blind, Sept. (L17/301), an offer to sell letters relating to Lord Bute's family and allied families, Sept. (L17/305), the inauguration of the South Bedfordshire and North Hertfordshire Agricultural Society, Oct. - Dec. (L17/367, 380, 449), the military works at Dover Castle, Kent, shut up in consequence 'of the excited state of our neighbours and the signs of the times', Nov. (L17/376), and damage to Cardiff Docks, co. Glam., Nov. - Dec. (L17/385, 427). The papers include an appeal entitled Spiritual destitution of the parish of Bethnal Green, London, Jan. (L17/33), a circular from the Central Agricultural Society of Great Britain and Ireland against the repeal of the Corn Laws, March (L17/79), Address to the labourers, farmers, and landlords of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, calling for the formation of a League of Corn Law Associations, March (L17/107), Second report of the committee of the Irish Protestant Tenantry Society, July (L17/217), notice of a public meeting relating to the Lock Hospital, Asylum and Chapel, London, July (L17/228), an application for a subscription towards a proposed Protestant Home for British students at Paris schools and colleges, Aug. (L17/283), a pamphlet calling for the repeal of that part of Lord Lyndhurst's Marriage Act (5 and 6 William IV, c.54) that prohibits marriage with a deceased's wife's sister, Oct. (L17/343), resolutions of the final meeting of the Joint-Stock Bank Association and of a meeting at the House of Commons in favour of the economist Thomas Joplin, Aug. (L17/292), papers from the National Society (L17/452), a copy of a letter to The Record relating to Roman Catholicism in the colonies (L17/453) and a catalogue of works published by the Society of Antiquaries of London (L17/454).