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Whitehall Place, Oct[obe]r 22 1832 / Sir / Having announced myself a candidate for the honor of representing the county of Middlesex in Parliament, I beg leave respectfully to solicit your vote at the ensuing election; ...
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HENLEY, Robert, 2nd Baron Henley (1789--1841)
Whitehall Place, Oct[obe]r 22 1832 / Sir / Having announced myself a candidate for the honor of representing the county of Middlesex in Parliament, I beg leave respectfully to solicit your vote at the ensuing election; ...
London (Place), [1832].
[4] p. ; 25.3 cm. (4º)
Folded half-sheet, conjugate leaf blank. Lithographically printed letter, signed at end 'Henley', i.e. the Hon. Robert Henley [formerly Robert Henley Eden], who canvassed Middlesex in the 1832 general election on a platform of church reform, taking a strong abolitionist stance on the trade of enslaved poeple but declining to state his position on the silk trade and the corn laws. Soane received this letter as his home at 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields fell wihtin the Middlesex constituency. Suffering regular popular abuse, Henley withdrew his candidacy at some time before the poll took place. This had not been related to his stance on slavery, which was well timed. The Slavery Abolution Act received Royal Assent only ten months later in August 1833, and took effect in August 1834.
Copy Notes Previously folded as a letter marked pd and addressed in ink J. Soane Esqre / 13 Lin. Inn Fields; endorsed by Soane 1832 / Novr / Lord Henley / Candidate for / a seat in / Parliament.
Binding Folded paper.
Reference Number 6745
Additional Names Eden, Robert Henley (1789--1841)
Whitehall Place, Oct[obe]r 22 1832 / Sir / Having announced myself a candidate for the honor of representing the county of Middlesex in Parliament, I beg leave respectfully to solicit your vote at the ensuing election; ...
London (Place), [1832].
[4] p. ; 25.3 cm. (4º)
Folded half-sheet, conjugate leaf blank. Lithographically printed letter, signed at end 'Henley', i.e. the Hon. Robert Henley [formerly Robert Henley Eden], who canvassed Middlesex in the 1832 general election on a platform of church reform, taking a strong abolitionist stance on the trade of enslaved poeple but declining to state his position on the silk trade and the corn laws. Soane received this letter as his home at 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields fell wihtin the Middlesex constituency. Suffering regular popular abuse, Henley withdrew his candidacy at some time before the poll took place. This had not been related to his stance on slavery, which was well timed. The Slavery Abolution Act received Royal Assent only ten months later in August 1833, and took effect in August 1834.
Copy Notes Previously folded as a letter marked pd and addressed in ink J. Soane Esqre / 13 Lin. Inn Fields; endorsed by Soane 1832 / Novr / Lord Henley / Candidate for / a seat in / Parliament.
Binding Folded paper.
Reference Number 6745
Additional Names Eden, Robert Henley (1789--1841)