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James Roberts Pears
A 19th-century religious writer whose surviving work dives straight into a public debate about Sunday mail delivery, combining moral argument with the civic concerns of Victorian Britain.
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A Reply to Dr. Vaughan's "Letter on the Late Post-Office Agitation"
by James Roberts Pears
About the author
James Roberts Pears is a little-known 19th-century author best remembered for A Reply to Dr. Vaughan's "Letter on the late Post-Office Agitation. The title page of that work identifies him as James Roberts Pears, M.A., and the book shows him engaging closely with a live public controversy over Sunday postal service.
His writing sits at the crossroads of religion, public policy, and social reform. In that reply, he answers arguments made during the Bath post-office dispute and presents a thoughtful, firmly argued case shaped by Christian belief and concern for public morals.
Very little biographical information about him could be confirmed from reliable sources consulted here, so most of what can be said with confidence comes from his surviving publication rather than a fuller personal record.