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111. Add MS 78391

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXXIV. `Devotions of Mrs Blaggs which I copied out at the Request of my Lady Sylvius & from whom I borrowed them afterwards & intend to Restore'; [aft. 1678]. Copies by Evelyn of prayers, sermon notes, hymns and verse by Margaret Blagge, wife of Sidney Godolphin, p...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[after 1678]
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1 item

112. Add MS 78334

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXVII. `Hortus Hyemalis sive Collectio Plantarum Horti Gymnasij Patavini, quibus auctior erat 1645 …’; 1645, with later notes and specimens.
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John Evelyn's hortus siccus, which he called his 'hortus hyemalis'. The autograph title-page also bears Evelyn’s motto, `Meliora Retinete’, an emblem of a bleeding heart transfixed with two arrows, a quotation from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book I: `Heu mihi quod nullis Amor est medicabilis Herbis;...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1645
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1 item

113. Add MS 78369

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCII. `Copy of what I sent to the Countesse of Clarendon 1688', with `concerning the Millenium' added; 1688. Autograph. See Add. MS 78299 for Evelyn's letters to Flower, wife of Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon, at this time. Beal EvJ 164. Formerly Evelyn MS 35. Origi...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1688
Extent:
1 item

114. Add MS 78426 G

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G. Reversed etched version of the same; [20th cent.?] 170 x 125mm.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[20th century?]
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1 item

115. Add MS 78428 C

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C. Seal of John Evelyn, with ebony (?) handle. Motto `Junxit Amor’ and two Evelyn griffins on joined shields engraved. English (?), circa mid. 17th cent. Attached to card, with an impression in red wax, labelled by William John Evelyn, 19th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 item

116. Add MS 78428 E

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E. Seal of Sir John Evelyn of Godstone (1590-1664), engraved glass (?), mounted in bronze (?). Evelyn crest. English. First half 17th cent. Attached to card, with an inscription by William John Evelyn.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
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1 item

117. Add MS 78303-78304

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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...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1636-1699
Extent:
2 items

118. Add MS 78320-78322

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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

119. Add MS 78378

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXI. Two devotional works in unbound quarto gatherings. 1. ff. 1-65. [`An Office for the Lord's Day']; [April 1674?]. Autograph. No title-page and no pentacle symbol, although one appears on the last page of passages to be inserted. The title and date come from Add. MS...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1673-1675
Extent:
1 item

120. Add MS 78342

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXV. `Elysium Britannicum, or The Royal Gardens in Three Books' (f. 8), a comprehensive work on horticulture; in a later published extract from the work, Acetaria: a Discourse of Sallets, Evelyn added the sub-title, `Describing and Shewing the Amplitude, and Extent of that...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1660-1740
Extent:
1 item