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...
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...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCVIII. 1. Accounts and receipts for personal expenditure of William John Evelyn; 1873-1898. 2. Miscellaneous notes and papers of William John Evelyn; 1819-1877, n.d. Partly printed. Including former Evelyn MSS 161 and 167 and 284.
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. DI. Compilation of prose and verse, beg. with `The Marchant: a tale'; circa 1770. Copy in a single hand on 100 numbered pages, with an imperfect index. 335 x 210mm.
Mary Evelyn (Lady Wyche) 78295. EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXXVIII. Correspondence of Mary Evelyn of Wotton (1648-1723), eldest daughter of George Evelyn II and afterwards (1692) wife of Sir Cyril Wyche; 1664-[1690s?]. 1. Letters from her father George Evelyn; 1664-1674. The first letters in the sequ...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXII. `Trades. Secrets & Receipts Mechanical, as they came casualy to hand. Alphabetically plac’d according to the subsequent Table'; [1650s]. Partly autograph, but some entries in other hands. With an alphabetical list of the trades at the beginning (f. 2); after t...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXVIII. Treatise on natural philosophy and chemistry; [aft. 1660?]. Autograph draft, including several pen and ink sketches of the laboratory equipment. Imperfect and fragmentary at the end. Most of this text is based on a course in chemistry by Nicasius Le Fèvre, stud...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXIX. `Coelum sanitatis. or, a Particular of the Vegetable & Animal Dissolvant'; [1650s-1660s]. Autograph copy or translation. Account of the chemical preparation and curative properties of a quintessential remedy, of which Evelyn remarks (f. 53), `this is for all o...