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.
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...
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.
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.