EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXCIII-CCCXCV. Correspondence of, chiefly letters to, George Evelyn of Wotton (d. 1829), and his wife, Mary-Jane (Massey-Dawson); 1814-1855, n.d. Partly drafts. Partly French and Italian. The majority of the letters are to Mrs Evelyn, both before and after her marriage. She survived her husband by many years and continued to live at Wotton during her son’s minority. Preceded by two letters to her uncle, Charles Nicholas Pallmer of Norbiton; 1808.
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 ...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CLXXXVI-CLXXXIX. Manuscripts relating to Evelyn's project for publishing a verse translation with commentary of Lucretius' De rerum natura; 1656-1657. Only the translation of the first book was ever published. No manuscripts relating to the second book are known to survive. The project, which reflected Evelyn's interest in the new science as well as in classical literature and philosophy, is discussed in his letters to Sir Richard Browne of 1656-57 in Add. MS 78221. See ...
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...