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11. Add MS 78323-78325

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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

12. Add MS 78342-78344

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Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CLXXV-CLXXVII. Manuscripts of the `Elysium Britannicum'; [late 1650s-bef. 1706]. Beal EvJ 75, 76. Formerly Evelyn MSS 45, 38, and unnumbered. Three volumes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[Late 1650s-before 1706]
Extent:
3 items

13. Add MS 78407-78410

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Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CCXL-CCXLIII. Bills and receipts of Evelyn and his family, mostly for household provisions and clothing, many made through John Strickland, steward at Sayes Court and (after 1699) Thomas Bedingfield, steward at Wotton; 1641-1706. The Wotton papers include some bills for work done on the estate, where it is difficult to separate these consistently from household bills. The main sequence of estate accounts and rentals is filed below under Estate Papers, Add. MSS 78585-786...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1641-1706
Extent:
4 items

14. Add MS 78451-78452

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Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXXIV, CCLXXXV. Papers of John Evelyn junior as commissioner of the Irish revenue; 1681-1697. Including former Evelyn MSS 113, 276, 277. At the end is a copy of a sermon preached at Christ Church, Dublin, 23 Oct. 1696, formerly Evelyn MS 119. Two folders.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1681-1697
Extent:
2 items

15. Add MS 78385 A-H

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Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXVIII. Unbound meditations
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1670-1679]
Extent:
8 items

16. Add MS 78574 A-D

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Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCVII A-D. Compilations concerning the descent of the Evelyn family in the 19th century, chiefly prepared by William John Evelyn in connection with an action for libel against a former employee, who had cast doubt on the legitimacy of his father, and therefore on their right of succession to the Evelyn estates; 1878-1882. See also Helen Evelyn, Evelyn Family, pp. 360-366. Four volumes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
4 items

17. Add MS 78426 AA-I

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Title:
78426 A-I. EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLIX A. Engraved portraits of Evelyn, 17th-18th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
10 items

18. Add MS 78405 A-B

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Add MS 78405 A-B
Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXXXVIII A, B. Two account books of receipts and debts; 1650-1683. Mostly autograph, but with some initial entries in the hand of Evelyn's amanuensis, Richard Hoare. Both books were begun in 1650, but record some transactions as far back as 1645. With the inscriptions on the fly-leaves, `E Libris Autographis J. Evelyni Pariis 1650'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1650-1683
Extent:
2 items

19. Add MS 78328-78331

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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

20. Add MS 78681-78682

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Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. DXIV, DXV. `Collectors of Books. Vol. II. 1824’ covers the period 1776-1809; `Collectors of Books. Vol. III. 1824’ covers the period 1809-1825. The date spans are those stamped on the spines, but both volumes contain a few earlier documents. Neither contains any of Evelyn family provenance.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1809-1825
Extent:
2 items

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