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2. Add MS 78303-78304
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- Add MS 78303-78304
- 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
3. Add MS 78320-78322
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- Add MS 78320-78322
- 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
4. Add MS 78312-78313
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- Add MS 78312-78313
- 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
5. Add MS 78397-78399
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- Add MS 78397-78399
- Title:
- EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CCXXX-CCXXXII. Formal accounts of hospitals, Second Dutch War; 1664-1667. Three volumes.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1664-1667
- Extent:
- 3 items
6. Add MS 78394-78395
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- Add MS 78394-78395
- Title:
- EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CCXXVII, CCXXVIII. Certificates from the shipboard officials to the Commissioner for Sick and Wounded Seamen and agents in Evelyn's district that the individuals named therein from the ships specified have been set on shore for treatment; 1665-1666. Signed by the officials. Mostly printed forms with manuscript additions. Followed by lists of prisoners of war, 1665-1666 (ff. 137-145), and of ships, English and French, with commanders and numbers of crew (ff. 146-153), ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1665-1666
- Extent:
- 2 items
7. Add MS 78539-78542
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- Add MS 78539-78542
- Title:
- EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXXII-CCCLXXV. Correspondence, sermon notes and other papers of Ralph Bohun, D.D; 1667-1716. Bohun, a Fellow of New College Oxford, was tutor to John Evelyn junior at Sayes Court and Oxford between 1665 and 1671, and afterwards rector of West Kington, co. Wilt, 1674-1701, and of the Evelyns’ parish of Wotton from 1701 until his death in 1716. Since he died unmarried and with no relations in the vicinity, his papers were probably taken into the Evelyn archive at thi...
- Scope & Content:
- Ralph Bohun, Rector of West Kington, and of Wotton: Correspondence and papers: 1667-1716.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1667-1716
- Extent:
- 17 items
8. Add MS 78426 AA-B
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- Add MS 78426 AA-B
- Title:
- Aa, Ab, B. Three copies of the portrait of Evelyn, drawn and engraved by Robert Nanteuil; 1650. Aa and Ab appear to represent state V, and B possibly state VI of the engraving, as listed in Charles Petitjean and Charles Wickert, Catalogue de l’oeuvre gravé de Robert Nanteuil (Paris, 1925), p. 188. 360 x 250mm.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1650
- Extent:
- 3 items
9. Add MS 78207-78208
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- Add MS 78207-78208
- Title:
- EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XL, XLI. Papers, chiefly memorials and petitions, many of them from Browne, to the French King, the Queen Regent, and secretaries of state on behalf of particular individuals or ships; 1640-1654. Chiefly drafts or copies. Partly Latin, French and Spanish. Two volumes
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1640-1654
- Extent:
- 2 items
10. Add MS 78315-78319
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- Add MS 78315-78319
- 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