JOHN EVELYN (1620-1706) 78298-78429. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CXXXI- CCLXII. Correspondence and papers of John Evelyn; 1635-1706, with a few earlier and later items. Evelyn, second son of Richard Evelyn of Wotton, was educated at Lewes and Balliol College Oxford, travelled extensively in Europe in the 1640s, married Mary Browne, daughter of the English Resident in Paris in 1647, and settled at her ancestral home, Sayes Court in Deptford (where he created a celebrated garden) from 1652 until...
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John Evelyn, diarist: Correspondence and papers: 1635-1706.
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXXXII (ff. iv +167). Letterbook, containing letters numbered cccciii-dcccx, in continuation of the preceding volume, dated 15 April 1679-6 Feb. 1697/8(the last letter breaks off after the first few lines). Some of the drafts on single leaves, which now filed in the chrono...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXXXIII (ff. 130). 1. ff. 1-85. Letters to John Evelyn from his wife Mary, daughter of Sir Richard Browne and Elizabeth (Pretyman); 1652-1705. 2. ff. 86-89. Letters from his daughters Mary (1665-1685), 1681, and Elizabeth (1667-1685), 1685. 3. ff. 90-130. Letters from h...
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. Vol. CXXXIV (ff. 110). 1. ff. 1-83. Letters from his son John, 1665-1697, with one (f. 109) from his widow Martha (Spencer), 1699. Several early letters are in Latin. 2. ff. 84-108. Letters from his grandson John, son of the preceding and afterwards Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart.; 1...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXXXV (ff. 93). 1. ff. 1-13. Letters from his father, Richard Evelyn of Wotton; 1635-1640. 2. ff. 14-93. Letters from his younger brother Richard Evelyn of Woodcote (1622-1670), 1644-1668, n.d., his brother’s wife Elizabeth (Mynne), 1666-1688, and one in French (f. 59) fro...
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...