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12. Add MS 78462-78529
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 78462-78529
- Title:
- Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart
- Scope & Content:
- Sir John Evelyn, 1st Baronet: Corrrespondence and papers: 1697-1785.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- [1145-1840]
- Extent:
- 75 items
13. Add MS 78168-78271
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 78168-78271
- Title:
- GONSON AND BROWNE 78168-78271. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. I-CIV. Papers which accrued to the Evelyn archive as the family papers of Mary, wife of John Evelyn (1620-1706) and only surviving child of Sir Richard Browne, Bart (1605-1683). They consist of papers (78168-78171) which descended to Browne through his mother Thomasine (d. 1638) from her father Benjamin Gonson the elder (d. 1577) and grandfather William Gonson (d. 1545), both of whom had been in turn Treasurers of the Navy; further pa...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1641-1660
- Extent:
- 109 items
14. Add MS 78544-78545
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 78544-78545
- Title:
- SIR JOHN EVELYN, 2ND BART. 78544, 78545. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CCCLXXVII, CCCLVIII. Records of Sir John Evelyn, 2nd Bart. (1706-1767), as Clerk of the Greencloth; 1761, 1765. The 2nd Bart. survived his father by only four years, and apart from his letters to his parents in Add. MS 78471 and a few financial papers of his period in Add MS 78526 above, the following volumes deriving from his court office are the only records of his to survive. Two volumes.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1761-1765
- Extent:
- 2 items
15. Add MS 78430-78439
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 78430-78439
- Title:
- Mary Evelyn (wife of the diarist)
- Scope & Content:
- Mary Evelyn, wife of John Evelyn, the diarist: Correspondence and papers: 1648-1708.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- [1647-1708]
- Extent:
- 10 items
16. Add MS 78611-78629
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 78611-78629
- Title:
- ESTATE PAPERS: DEPTFORD 78611-78629. EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXLIV-CCCCLXII. Estate papers, account-books and plans relating to the tenure of the Browne and Evelyn families of the manor of Sayes Court, Deptford; circa 1545-1877. The manor of Sayes Court belonged to the crown and in the 16th and early 17th centuries was used by the Board of Green Cloth to pasture cattle for the royal household at Greenwich Palace. Sir Richard Browne (circa 1538-1604), grandfather of Sir Richard Browne, Ba...
- Scope & Content:
- Deptford, Kent: Estate papers, account-books and plans rel. to the manor of Sayes Court: circa 1545-1877.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- c 1545-1877
- Extent:
- 34 items
17. Add MS 78678-78693
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 78678-78693
- Title:
- UPCOTT’S COLLECTIONS 78678-78693. EVELYN PAPERS. Albums containing autograph letters and other manuscript items, 16th-19th cent., collected and assembled by Wiliam Upcott (1779-1845), with a few loose items also collected by him, early 19th cent. For Upcott and the Evelyn family, see also Add. MSS 78577-78584 and 78641-78642 above. The documents are arranged in sets of albums by the status or occupation of the writers, and within each album alphabetically by the writer’s name, or chrono...
- Scope & Content:
- William Upcott, antiquary and autograph collector: Albums of letters and portraits, 16th-19th cent. assembled by William Upcott: early 19th cent.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 16th century-19th century
- Extent:
- 16 items
18. Add MS 78630-78643
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 78630-78643
- Title:
- CATALOGUES OF THE EVELYN LIBRARY 78630-78643. EVELYN PAPERS. . CCCCLXIII- CCCCLXXVI. Catalogues of the book collection begun by John Evelyn (1620-1706) and added to by later generations of the Evelyn family; 1653-[1860s]. Including a few lists of manuscripts. For the collection as dispersed at auction, 1977-78, see Christie’s sale catalogues, The Evelyn Library, Part I, A-C (22-23 June 1977), Part II, D-L (30 Nov.-1 Dec. 1977), Part III, M-S (15-16 March 1978), Part IV, T-Z (12-13 July 1...
- Scope & Content:
- John Evelyn, diarist: Catalogues and papers rel. to the library founded by John Evelyn: 1653-1860s.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1653-[1860s]
- Extent:
- 14 items
19. Add MS 78282-78290
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 78282-78290
- Title:
- John Stansfield 78282-78290. EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXV-CXXIII. Papers of John Stansfield, merchant of the Cliffe, near Lewes, and maternal grandfather of the diarist; 1581-1637. Stansfield `exported through Newhaven corn, iron, ordnance and timber, principally to London and ports in northern France and the Netherlands, and imported groceries, draperies . . . salt, wine, fruit, sugar and coal, much of which was then distributed from Lewes across the weald and downland, and to Brighton’ (Col...
- Scope & Content:
- John Stansfield, merchant, of Lewes, county Sussex: Correspondence and papers: 1581-1637.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1581-1637
- Extent:
- 9 items
20. Add MS 78298-78429
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 78298-78429
- Title:
- JOHN EVELYN (1620-1706) 78298-78429. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CXXXI- CCLXII. Correspondence and papers of John Evelyn; 1635-1706, with a few earlier and later items. Evelyn, second son of Richard Evelyn of Wotton, was educated at Lewes and Balliol College Oxford, travelled extensively in Europe in the 1640s, married Mary Browne, daughter of the English Resident in Paris in 1647, and settled at her ancestral home, Sayes Court in Deptford (where he created a celebrated garden) from 1652 until...
- Scope & Content:
- John Evelyn, diarist: Correspondence and papers: 1635-1706.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1635-1706
- Extent:
- 161 items