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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78462-78529
Title:: Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart
Scope & Content:: Sir John Evelyn, 1st Baronet: Corrrespondence and papers: 1697-1785.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1145-1840]
Extent:: 75 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78544-78545
Title:: SIR JOHN EVELYN, 2ND BART. 78544, 78545. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CCCLXXVII, CCCLVIII. Records of Sir John Evelyn, 2nd Bart. (1706-1767), as Clerk of the Greencloth; 1761, 1765. The 2nd Bart. survived his father by only four years, and apart from his letters to his parents in Add. MS 78471 and a few financial papers of his period in Add MS 78526 above, the following volumes deriving from his court office are the only records of his to survive. Two volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1761-1765
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78554-78576
Title:: SUCCESSORS OF SIR FREDERICK EVELYN 78554-78576. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CCCLXXXVII-CCCCIX. Papers of the successors of Sir Frederick Evelyn; 1761-1907. Sir Frederick Evelyn, 3rd Bart., had no children, and the heirs to the baronetcy, John Evelyn, 4th Bart., and Hugh Evelyn, 5th Bart., the sons of his cousin Charles (younger son of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart.), were both of unsound mind. Sir Frederick left his estates to his widow, with the provision that they should pass at her death to hi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1761-1907
Extent:: 28 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78577-78584
Title:: WILLIAM BRAY AND WILLIAM UPCOTT 78577-78584. EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCX- CCCCXVII. Manuscripts deriving from the association of William Bray (1736-1832) and William Upcott (1779-1845) with the Evelyn family; 1814-1846. William Bray of Shere became the Evelyn family solicitor in the lifetime of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., and obtained his place in the Greencloth by the patronage of the 2nd Bart. In his memoir of the Evelyn family (Add. MS 78582 A below) he describes how he recommended Wi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1814-1846
Extent:: 13 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78585-78610
Title:: ESTATE PAPERS: SURREY 78585-78610. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CCCCXVIII- CCCCXLIII. Estate papers relating to the Surrey estates owned by the Evelyn family; 1486-1863. The main sequence of manorial records and deeds relating to these estates is on deposit at Surrey History Centre, Woking (Deposit no. 6330). The material described here consists of miscellaneous paper documents, account-books, etc., relating to the estates, which, probably because of their format, were retained with the persona...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1486-1863
Extent:: 49 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78611-78629
Title:: ESTATE PAPERS: DEPTFORD 78611-78629. EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXLIV-CCCCLXII. Estate papers, account-books and plans relating to the tenure of the Browne and Evelyn families of the manor of Sayes Court, Deptford; circa 1545-1877. The manor of Sayes Court belonged to the crown and in the 16th and early 17th centuries was used by the Board of Green Cloth to pasture cattle for the royal household at Greenwich Palace. Sir Richard Browne (circa 1538-1604), grandfather of Sir Richard Browne, Ba...
Scope & Content:: Deptford, Kent: Estate papers, account-books and plans rel. to the manor of Sayes Court: circa 1545-1877.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1545-1877
Extent:: 34 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78630-78643
Title:: CATALOGUES OF THE EVELYN LIBRARY 78630-78643. EVELYN PAPERS. . CCCCLXIII- CCCCLXXVI. Catalogues of the book collection begun by John Evelyn (1620-1706) and added to by later generations of the Evelyn family; 1653-[1860s]. Including a few lists of manuscripts. For the collection as dispersed at auction, 1977-78, see Christie’s sale catalogues, The Evelyn Library, Part I, A-C (22-23 June 1977), Part II, D-L (30 Nov.-1 Dec. 1977), Part III, M-S (15-16 March 1978), Part IV, T-Z (12-13 July 1...
Scope & Content:: John Evelyn, diarist: Catalogues and papers rel. to the library founded by John Evelyn: 1653-1860s.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1653-[1860s]
Extent:: 14 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78644-78677
Title:: MANUSCRIPTS COLLECTED BY THE EVELYN FAMILY 78644-78677. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CCCCLXXVII-DX. Manuscripts (with a few other objects) which accrued to the Evelyn archive or library and have remained with the archive, but which cannot be certainly associated with the collections of Sir Richard Browne (see Add. MSS 78235-78254) or John Evelyn the diarist (see Add MSS 78414-78429); 15th cent.-18th centt. For Evelyn’s essay on collecting manuscripts, see Evelyn, Memoirs, ed. Bray (1818), II, p...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15th century-18th century
Extent:: 38 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78678-78693
Title:: UPCOTT’S COLLECTIONS 78678-78693. EVELYN PAPERS. Albums containing autograph letters and other manuscript items, 16th-19th cent., collected and assembled by Wiliam Upcott (1779-1845), with a few loose items also collected by him, early 19th cent. For Upcott and the Evelyn family, see also Add. MSS 78577-78584 and 78641-78642 above. The documents are arranged in sets of albums by the status or occupation of the writers, and within each album alphabetically by the writer’s name, or chrono...
Scope & Content:: William Upcott, antiquary and autograph collector: Albums of letters and portraits, 16th-19th cent. assembled by William Upcott: early 19th cent.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century-19th century
Extent:: 16 items

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