File L109/1-137. - Luton estate correspondece,

The correspondence includes letters from Rev. William McDouall of Copt Hall, Luton (L109/2, 4, 6 et seq.), Rev. Thomas Sikes of Luton Vicarage (L109/3, 20-1, 31 et seq.), Benjamin Ferrey of London, architect (L109/7, 49, 136), James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, first Baron Wharncliffe (L109/12), Henry Stuart of Cardington, MP for Bedford borough (L109/14, 43, 52 et seq.), Hon. George Rice Trevor (L109/16, 44, 47 et seq.), William Astell of the East India Office, London, MP for Bedfordshire (L109/17), James, second marquis Salisbury (L109/35), Thomas Erskine Austin of Luton, Clerk to the Board of Guardians of the Luton Union (L109/36-38, 114-115, 121 et seq.), William Alberti in Turin and Guzzano, (L109/46, 86), Lord Stuart de Rothesay (L109/61, 72, 94), Richard Halfhead and Charles Lewis Brett, honorary secretaries of the Bedford Conservative Association (L109/68), Rev. J. Wheddon of the Market Street Chapel (L109/80), John, marquis of Bute (L109/84, 122), William Villiers Stuart of Dromana, Co. Waterford, Ireland (L109/96), Rev. E. Lockwood of Bedford (L109/97), Thomas Abbott Green, chairman of the Bedford Borough Conservative Association (L109/107, 113), and John Strahorn of Pickring, Canada (L109/119). The correspondence includes letters relating to the Bedford Conservative Association, Jan. - Nov. (L109/1, 68, 107 et seq.), the Poor Men's Benefit Society, Luton, Jan. - Feb. (L109/2-3, 20-1), composition and apportionment of the tithes at Luton, Jan. - Oct. (L109/4, 6, 9 et seq.), proposed new Market House and public rooms, Luton, Jan. - April (L109/7, 20-1, 34), the consecration of the new Bedford church, Jan. (L109/8), reference to by-elections at Canterbury and Wallsall, Jan. (L109/10), the general election and the Bedfordshire and Bedford borough seats, Feb. - Oct. (L109/12, 16-17, 19 et seq.), including the close of poll results for Bedford borough, June (L109/65), and Peterborogh lost because 'the higher Tradesmen were false to their plighted word', July (L109/67), the Bedford Infirmary, Feb. - March (L109/23, 32), a new church at Luton, Feb. - June (L109/26-8, 33, 39-40 et seq.), the Board of Guardians of the Luton Union, April (L109/36-8), a petition to both Houses of Parliamant relating to the Corn Laws, May (L109/44), a meeting of the Society for Propagating the Gospel at Bedford, Sept. - Oct. (L109/101, 105-106), the distribution of blankets to the poor to commemorate the birth of Edward, prince of Wales, Nov. - Dec. (L109/118, 120, 124-5) and a weekly distribution of soup during the winter, Dec. (L109/125).