[Note: What follows is a description of the documents in this collection which are available for use at BGC Archives in Wheaton, Illinois, USA. The actual documents are not, in most cases, available online, only this description of them. Nor are they available for sale or rent.]

Small Collection 59 [February 22, 1996]

Wilks, Matthew; 1746-1829

Ephemera; 1819, 1829, n.d.

1 Folder

Restrictions

There are no restrictions on the use of this collection.

Biography

Evangelist; born, 1746; converted, 1771; served as minister to the Tabernacle and Tottenham Court for 53 years; founded The Evangelical Magazine and several evangelical mission societies; died, 1829.

Scope and Content

One item in the collection is a letter written by Wilks to Rev. A. J. Roberts from London regarding a future visit. The other is a lengthy biographical sketch of Wilks dated February 1829 by J. L. Dandy.

Provenance

The materials for this collection were received by the Center in April 1980 from the Manuscript Company of Springfield, Virginia.

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