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Alt Ref No	AM/4/1-18
Title	Letters to John Matthews (1808-1870) from his father, his mother, and his sisters.
Description	The letters breathe an atmosphere of a wholesome and helpful piety - many interesting references to Methodist Associations, to the preachers who came to them, to Evan Evans the missionary and his son Thomas Charles (Letter 11). Evan Evans had returned from S.Africa in poor health, and died at Llanidloes a few weeks after this letter was written. There is a description of the sale of his home in Clydfanc by his daughter Ann in letter 12. The letters also bear evidence to the gravitation towards the South.
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AdminHistory	John Matthews was apprenticed in London as a draper. Later, he became a draper's assistant to a gentleman who kept him at work occasionally until the early hours of the Sabbath. John Matthews, senior, as was natural, moved about the country considerably; but he seems for some time to have made his home at Clydfanc, near Llanidloes - in April 1828, that seems to have been given up, and a sale took place. The elder Matthews applied for the Gogerddan agency early in 1828, but was unsuccessfu. A little afterwards he purchased the lease of a house in Aberystwyth for the benefit of his son, though later, in 1840, he did his best to tempt him away from the seaside to Llandyrnog.

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