James A. Spurgeon, Spurgeon’s Orphanage, Stockwell, Clapham Road, London, [his private address was Campelton, West Croydon], to Penllyn Jones, Librarian, Aberystwyth University, September 1898.

Septr 1898

The Librarian, Aberystwyth University

Dear Sir

         Some time back I promised to forward you an autograph letter of my dear Brother the late C. H. Spurgeon. I now redeem my promise and by way of interest on my long standing debt to you I enclose a letter of Mr Ira D. Sankey & am

                                 Yours very faithy

                                             Jas A. Spurgeon

Text: Special Collections, University of Aberystwyth Library, Aberystwyth, Wales. Most likely this is the wife of the son of the Baptist minister, Christmas Evans. My thanks to William Hines, formerly Information Services Departmental Fellow, Abersytwyth University, Aberystwyth, Wales, for sharing images of these letters with me as well as backgrounds on the correspondents and individuals named in the letters.  Most likely the letters he enclosed are the letter by Spurgeon to his students (late 1880s) and the Ira Sankey letter of 1887, both incluced in the Spurgeon letters on this site.