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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78438-78439
Title:: EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXI, CCLXXII. Letterbooks of Mary Evelyn; [1667-[1674?]. Partly autograph; partly 18th cent copies. See also F. Harris `The Letterbooks of Mary Evelyn', English Manuscript Studies (1998), pp. 202-214. Two volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1667-1675
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78446-78447
Title:: EVELYN `PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXIX, CCLXXX. General commonplace books of John Evelyn junior; circa 1668-[1690s?]. Autograph. See also Add. MS 78598 below for estate memoranda in a notebook formerly used by him and containing a few of his commonplace notes. Two volumes. Uniform bindings of brown calf, matching the volumes used for the letterbooks and sermon notes of John Evelyn the diarist (Add. MSS 78298-78299 and 78364 above). 350 x 225mm.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1663-1699
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78449-78452
Title:: EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXXII-CCLXXXV. Papers of John Evelyn junior relating to the public revenue; 1681-1687, n.d. Evelyn had a succession of posts connected with the public revenue, obtained through the patronage of Sidney, Lord Godolphin; in 1687 he was commissioned by the Treasury to investigate concealed lands in Devonshire (Diary, IV, p. 565). He served under the Treasury secretary as chief clerk from circa July 1689 until June 1691 (Office-holders in Modern Britain: Treasury Official...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1681-1687
Extent:: 4 items

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

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