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1. Add MS 78303-78304

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Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CXXXVI, CXXXVII. Letters from his elder brother George Evelyn of Wotton (1617-1699), with a few letters from his first wife, Mary (Caldwell; d. 1644), and second wife, Mary (Offley; formerly wife of Sir John Cotton and still known as Lady Cotton after her marriage to George Evelyn, d. 1664) and his eldest son George; 1636-1699. Several letters of the 1650s refer to the creation of the landscape garden at Wotton. See also Add. MS 15949, ff. 2-4, for further letters of 168...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1636-1699
Extent:
2 items

2. Add MS 78312-78313

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Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CXLV, CXLVI. Letters from John Beale, D.D., F.R.S. (1608-1683), Rector of Yeovil; 1659-1679. Partly Latin, including some verse. Some of the letters are in the hands of amanuenses and signed or initialled by Beale. Several have formerly been damaged by damp and are now discoloured and have portions of text missing. Further letters from Beale to Evelyn, once part of this sequence, were removed by Evelyn to the collection of notes and documents put together for inserti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1659-1679
Extent:
2 items

3. Add MS 78315-78319

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Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CXLVIII-CLII. Five volumes of letters to John Evelyn from various correspondents 1637-1706.
Scope & Content:
Chiefly letters to Evelyn, but including draft letters by him, some of which were intended for copying into his letterbooks. A number of letters in Latin, French and Italian. Letters of John Earle, John Cosin (Add MS 78316, ff. 24, 31) and Lady Clarendon (Add MS 78317, f. 140), which may origi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1637-1706
Extent:
5 volumes

4. Add MS 78320-78322

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Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CLIII-CLV. Correspondence of John Evelyn, mostly incoming letters, with some related papers, as Commissioner for Sick and Wounded Seaman; 1664-1688. Evelyn was first appointed to the Commission for Sick and Wounded Seamen on 28 October 1664, with responsibility for Kent and Sussex, in anticipation of the outbreak of the Second Dutch War. His fellow commissioners were Sir William Doyley, Bart., M.P. (Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex), Bullen Reymes, M.P. (Hampshire and Dorset), a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1664-1688
Extent:
3 items

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