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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78465-78466
Title:: EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXCVIII, CCXCIX. Letters from Jael (Godolphin) Boscawen, widow of Edward Boscawen, M.P., to her daughter Lady (Anne) Evelyn; 1706-1730. Two volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1706-1730
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78472-78474
Title:: EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCV-CCCVII. Letters to Sir John Evelyn from Theophilus Peyrol, 1725-1730, tutor and governor to his second son Charles (1709-1749), and afterwards from Charles Evelyn himself and (especially after 1740) from his wife, Susanna (Prideaux) to Sir John and Lady Evelyn, 1731-1747, including Sir John’s abstract of their marriage settlement, 1732; 1725-1747. Followed (at the end of 78474) by letters to Charles Evelyn, his eldest son Charles, and the latter’s wife Philippa (Wr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1725-1747
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78483-78484
Title:: EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXVI, CCCXVII. Correspondence of Sir John Evelyn with Robert Wake, steward of Wotton; 1710-1716. Both sides of the correspondence survive; Sir John Evelyn’s letters are originals, presumably returned to him by Wake.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1710-1716
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78485-78490
Title:: EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXVIII-CCCXXIII. Correspondence of Sir John Evelyn with Thomas James, steward at Wotton; 1721-1737, preceded by a letter of 1719 from John Dibble, a tenant, to James, indicating that the latter began to act as steward immediately in succession to Robert Wake, although no letters from him to Evelyn are present here for 1719-1720. The series consists chiefly of James’s letters to Evelyn, but from the latter part of 1735 onwards Evelyn’s letters to James also survive. J...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1721-1737
Extent:: 6 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78491-78495
Title:: EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXXIV-CCCXXVIII. Letters from Henry Symonds, steward at Wotton; 1735-1744. One letter of 1735, concerning the killing of game, precedes the main sequence written as steward in succession to Thomas James. Five volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1735-1744
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78498-78502
Title:: EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXXXI-CCCXXXV. General correspondence of Sir John and Lady Evelyn, mostly of the former; 1699-1762, n.d. Including some drafts and retained copies of Sir John Evelyn’s letters, the early ones in Latin. Several more letters to Sir John and Lady Evelyn, removed by William Upcott, are in Add. MS 15949 and Add. MSS 78678-78679, 78683-78685 below. Five volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1699-1762
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78503-78511
Title:: Official Papers 78503-78511. EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXXXVI- CCCXLIV. Papers relating to the public offices of Sir John Evelyn; 1705-1759. In addition to being M.P. for Helston 1708-1710, and a Justice of the Peace, Evelyn held the offices of Treasurer of the revenue of stamped paper, from January 1704 (Diary, V, p. 556), Commissioner of Prizes, from July 1705, Joint Postmaster General, 1708-1715, and Commissioner of Customs, 1721-1763. Nine volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1705-1759
Extent:: 9 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78514 A-F
Title:: EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXLVII A-F. Journal of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart.; 1713-1734. Autograph. The journal is entered into a series of notebooks of different sizes and kinds. The uniform handwriting suggests that it was fair copied and perhaps expanded after the event from notes made at the time. The contents mainly concern journeys, sight-seeing (especially houses and gardens), social and family events and some references to public events. Formerly Evelyn MS 248. (A, C-F in one case; ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1713-1734
Extent:: 6 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78519 A-C
Title:: EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLII A-C. Notebooks purportedly by an anonymous London merchant who is also the owner of the manor of Lees in Surrey, but apparently compiled for use in the teaching of book-keeping; 1697-1700. Fair copies, chiefly in a single unidentified hand. The additions to the second volume suggest that they may have been connected with the education of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart. Formerly Evelyn MS 194 (Add. MS 78519 C) and unnumbered.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1697-1700
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78521-78522
Title:: Evelyn Papers. Vols. cccliv, ccclv. Miscellaneous verse, English and Latin, together with inscriptions and some prose, circa 1150-1809, composed or collected partly by John Evelyn but mostly by later generations of his family; circa late 17th-early 19th cent. Mostly copies. Partly printed. Partly Latin, French and Italian. Many are docketed in the hand of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart. Included are items formerly numbered as Eve. MSS 200, 331, 334, 338, 340, 504, 509, 561. As follows:-
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c Late 17th century-Early 19th century
Extent:: 2 items

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