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751. Add MS 78678-78693

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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...
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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

752. Add MS 78679

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. DXII. Letters and documents of the following (titles I-Z). 1. Sir John Knevit to [John Evelyn or Sir Richard Browne?]; 1663. French. 2. Order from Sir Marmaduke Langdale, afterwards 1st Baron Langdale, to the aldermen of Leeds; 1639. Signed. 3. Order from Ludovic Stuart...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1549-1713
Extent:
1 item

753. Add MS 78680

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. DXIII. `Collectors of Books. Vol. I. 1824’. Letters and documents of the following: 1, 2. Sir Thomas Bodley; 28 July 1595. With a facsimile. 3. Sir Robert Cotton (facsimile) 4. John, Lord Lumley; 15 July 1578. 5-7. Dr John Cosin, Dean of Peterborough, Bishop of Durham,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1578-1824
Extent:
1 item

754. Add MS 78680-78682

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Evelyn Papers. Vols. dxiii-dxv. `Original Letters collected by William Upcott of the London Institution: Collectors of Books’. Lot 513 in Evans’ sale of Upcott’s collections, 22 June 1846 (Add. MS 78584 B). Formerly Evelyn MSS 2/1-3. Three volumes. Matching bindings of brown leather. 340 x 250mm.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1578-1825]
Extent:
3 items

755. Add MS 78681

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Scope & Content:
Vols. DXIV, DXV. `Collectors of Books. Vol. II. 1824’. 1776-1809.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1776-1809
Extent:
1 item

756. Add MS 78681-78682

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. DXIV, DXV. `Collectors of Books. Vol. II. 1824’ covers the period 1776-1809; `Collectors of Books. Vol. III. 1824’ covers the period 1809-1825. The date spans are those stamped on the spines, but both volumes contain a few earlier documents. Neither contains any of Evelyn family provenance.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1809-1825
Extent:
2 items

757. Add MS 78682

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Scope & Content:
Vols. DXIV, DXV. `Collectors of Books. Vol. III. 1824’. 1809-1825.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1809-1825
Extent:
1 item

758. Add MS 78683

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol DXVI. Letters and documents of the following (A-F): 1. Joseph Addison to ?; 1703 2. Joseph Ames to Thomas Martin; 1756. 3, 4. Letter, etc., of Christopher Anstey; 1732, 1747 5. John Anstis to John Grigsby; 1713, 1714. 6. Francis Astry to ?; n.d. 7. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1631-1769
Extent:
1 item

759. Add MS 78683-78685

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vols DXVI-DXVIII. `Authors and Antiquaries’ (label on spines). On one of the fly-laves is a note by Upcott: `This First Series comprizes Three Hundred and Eighty Four Letters of Literary and Antiquarian Characters … Three volumes’. Lot 421 in Evans’ sale of Upcott’s collections, 22 June 1846 (Add. MS 78584 B). Formerly Evelyn MSS 3/1-3. Three volumes. Matching bindings of brown leather.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1621-1769]
Extent:
3 items

760. Add MS 78684

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Scope & Content:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. DXVII. Letters and documents of the following (G-P): 1, 2. Thomas Gale to John Evelyn; 10 Feb. 1698, 20 Jan. 1700 3-5. Roger Gale; 1710-1743 6. Power of attorney of Thomas Gibson; 1717. 7. Thomas Gibson to `Mr Coningham’; 1695. 8. Henry Gyles to Roger Geldart; 1690. 9. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1621-1763
Extent:
1 item