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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 78168-78693 Level [37] SubSeries

11. Add MS 78223-78224

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Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. LVI, LVII. General correspondence of Browne; circa 1624-1683. Partly drafts. Partly Latin, Greek and French. Many of the writers are members of his extended family and household servants, including James Stephens, 1643-1675; Thomas Batty, 1643-1680; Edward, Francis, George and Susan Hungerford, 1646-1669; George, Mary and Samuel Tuke, 1646-1674; William Peters, 1647-1649; Samuel and Elizabeth Camby, 1650-1674; and John Higgins, 1669-1673. Also included are letters,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1624-1683
Extent:
2 items

12. Add MS 78231 A-F

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Add MS 78231 A-F
Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXIV (ff. 152). Memoranda, with some notes of Browne’s reading, etc.; 1636-1682, n.d. Partly imperfect. Partly Latin, Greek, French and Italian. The memoranda, which were begun during his period of service with Scudamore and Leicester, include some from his period as Charles I’s agent in France. See also below Add. MS 78459 for an alphabetical commonplace-book of Browne that was re-used as an account-book, 1683-1690, by John Evelyn junior; headings run from ‘Absenti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1636-1682
Extent:
6 items

13. Add MS 78232-78234

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Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. LXV-LXVII. Verse and other material collected by Sir Richard Browne; circa 1603-1682. Partly Latin, French and Italian. Three volumes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1603-1682
Extent:
3 items

14. Add MS 78244-78249

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Add MS 78244-78249
Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. LXXVII-LXXXII. Tracts relating to European politics and political theory; 1530-1591, n.d. Copies, late 16th-early 17th centt. French, Italian and German. Most relate to French, Italian and Spanish affairs. Several are annotated with the same series of readers’ symbols in the margins. 78244-78247 were formerly grouped together as Evelyn MS 275. Ten volumes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1530-1591
Extent:
6 items

15. Add MS 78256-78257

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Add MS 78256-78257
Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. LXXXIX, XC. Letters and papers of Robert Long (afterw. 1st Bart) as secretary of state and privy councillor to Charles II when Prince of Wales; 1646-1649, n.d. The status of these as confiscated royalist papers amongst Council of State records is more certain. A trunk of Long’s papers was seized when Jersey (where Charles II had stayed on his flight from England in 1646) fell to the parliamentary forces in December 1651, and referred by the Council of State to the Com...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1646-1649
Extent:
2 items

16. Add MS 78258-78262

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Add MS 78258-78262
Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XCI-XCV. Committee for Examinations: Records, comprising informations, petitions, letters, and orders of the Council of State, with bonds for good behaviour, etc.; June 1649-Jan. 1653, n.d. (with four items only for 1649 and one major gap from April to June 1652). Partly printed. These papers were abstracted from the official transactions of the Council of State, 1649-1660, the bulk of which are to be found in The National Archives (formerly Public Record Office and S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1649-Jan 1653
Extent:
5 items

17. Add MS 78298-78299

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Add MS 78298-78299
Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CXXXI-CXXXII. Letterbooks, containing autograph copies or versions of Evelyn's letters to various correspondents between 1644 and 1698; [comp. second half of 17th cent]. Those at the beginning are in Latin, Italian, German and French, as indicated below. The letters were apparently entered from original loose drafts or retained copies. Evelyn notes in his Memoires for my Grand-son, pp. 64-65, that there are `severall more [letters] in loose papers which I intended to ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1644-1698
Extent:
2 items

18. Add MS 78300-78322

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Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CXXXIII-CLV. Letters to Evelyn from various correspondents, with some drafts of his letters; 1635-1706. Letters from members of Evelyn’s immediate family and large groups of letters from a single correspondent are placed together in Add. MSS 78300-78314. Single letters or small groups are arranged chronologically in Add. MSS 78315-78319. The sequences as they arranged here are not complete. A number of letters to Evelyn from notable correspondents were removed from th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1635-1706
Extent:
23 items

19. Add MS 78323-78325

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Add MS 78323-78325
Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CLVI-CLVIII. `Diary’ of John Evelyn, covering the period bef. 1620 till shortly before his death in Feb.1706; comp. [aft. 1660]-1706. Mostly autograph. Evelyn first began to keep diary notes as a school-boy, in imitation of his father (Diary, I, p. 8). An early example of these almanac entries of 1636-7 is now in Balliol College, PRT. 670.a.13. Another example of 1647 is unlocated after sale at Sotheby's, 23 June 1925, lot 347; another of 1653 is now Add. MS 80765. He...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1620-1706
Extent:
3 items

20. Add MS 78328-78331

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Add MS 78328-78331
Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CLXI-CLIV. `Loci communes': a series of three volumes, with a separate index volume; [circa 1649-1680s?]. Begun in Hoare's hand and continued by Evelyn, they contain `extracts of his reading . . . sorted by subject according to the whole gamut of knowledge, human, natural and divine', so that they comprise `one of the most elaborate commonplace books to survive for the period' (Hunter, op. cit., p. 74). Evelyn was proud of his method, sending his brother in 1658 `the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1649-1680s?]
Extent:
4 items

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