EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXXXIV. Account-book of Sir John Evelyn, 1st and 2nd Bart. and of Sir Frederick Evelyn and others as Treasurers of the Leatherhead to Guildford turnpike, showing receipts and payments; 1758-1793. Signed in several places by the officials. Formerly Evelyn MS 102. Origi...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXXIII. John Sampson: `Nestor's Panygyric: The Praise of Old Age … Written by the Author at Corpus Christi Coll: in Oxford’; 1624. With emblematic decorations in pen and ink on the title-page. The text, which begins, `To the most vertuous, wise and true Nestor Mr John Stan...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXLVII. Devotional manuscript, `Enchiridion christianarum precationum in honorem sacrosanctae individuae et gloriosae Trinitatis e sacris scripturis: delibatum et in particularia erga singulas Personas officia distributum', with dedicatory epistle (ff. 3-68v) by H[enry] Howa...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXIX. Commonplace collections from history, literature, the arts and the classics, initially compiled according to his father's method of annotating the margins with notes of subject matter (for which see further Add. MSS 78328-78331 above). Partly Latin. With a pencil she...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXXXVIII. Correspondence of John Evelyn, brother of William Glanville Evelyn above, who inherited Wotton on the death of Mary, widow of Sir Frederick Evelyn, 3rd Bart., including letters from William Bray and Henry Upton, steward at Wotton; 1778-1825, n.d. Partly drafts...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXCIII-CCCXCV. Correspondence of, chiefly letters to, George Evelyn of Wotton (d. 1829), and his wife, Mary-Jane (Massey-Dawson); 1814-1855, n.d. Partly drafts. Partly French and Italian. The majority of the letters are to Mrs Evelyn, both before and after her marriage. She survived her husband by many years and continued to live at Wotton during her son’s minority. Preceded by two letters to her uncle, Charles Nicholas Pallmer of Norbiton; 1808.
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXXXI. Memoranda of estate matters by Robert Wake; 1711-1715. Mostly in the hand of Robert Wake (see the reference to `my brother William Wake’, f. 12v), whose correspondence as steward is in Add. MSS 78483-78484 above, but including some notes (29v-25) in another hand ...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXXXIX. Journal of transactions chiefly relating to estate matters at Wotton by William John Evelyn; 1873-1882, n.d. Mostly autograph, with occasional printed items. Including some loose insertions, pasted-in drafts, retained copy letters and printed items. Formerly E...