EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXIV. Volume of notes by William Bray concerning the Evelyn family, preceded by a presentation letter to `Mrs Mary Jane Massey Evelyn, Widow of George Evelyn Esq.’, on different paper, describing amongst other matters the roles of himself and Upcott in the first publicat...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXX. Medical and culinary recipes; 1651-18th cent. In four sections, of which `Book I' is headed `Receipts Medicinal', `Book II', `Receipts Chirurgical', `Book III', `Receipts of Preserves and Perfumes', and `Book IIII' `Receipts of Cookery'. Each section begins with ent...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXXIV (ff. 176+87*+169*). Miscellaneous papers by or collected by Evelyn, relating to language, education, heraldry, etc.; including fragmentary works and notes. For related material, removed from the archive by William Upcott, see Add. MS 15950, ff. 81-105, 111-121. 1. ...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXCII (ff. 55). Miscellaneous literary manuscripts, including verse, inscriptions and epitaphs by, addressed to, or otherwise associated with John Evelyn; circa 1634-1706. 1. ff. 1-4. Act I, Scene 1 of `The Originals. A Comedy', by Evelyn; [1660s?]. Autograph fair copy. ...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXXXV. `Pictures and other Household-stuff Left at Sayes Court'; 1696. Autograph. Inventory, room by room, entered in pencil in a notebook containing a few earlier alphabetical entries by Evelyn for a library catalogue; made in June 1696 while Evelyn prepared Sayes Court ...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CCXL-CCXLIII. Bills and receipts of Evelyn and his family, mostly for household provisions and clothing, many made through John Strickland, steward at Sayes Court and (after 1699) Thomas Bedingfield, steward at Wotton; 1641-1706. The Wotton papers include some bills for work done on the estate, where it is difficult to separate these consistently from household bills. The main sequence of estate accounts and rentals is filed below under Estate Papers, Add. MSS 78585-786...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXLV. Papers relating to wills, trusteeships and executorships. 1. f. 1. `A very necessary paper belonging to the Codicill of my last Will ...'; 26 Feb. 1702/3. 2. ff. 2-15. Will and codicil of John Evelyn; 29 Feb. 1703/4. [italics]Autograph[/italics] and [italics]signed...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCL. Compendium of treatises on alchemy and the philosopher’s stone; 13th-16th cent. Latin, French and Italian.Copies in a single, probably French, scribal hand, early 17th cent., with some annotations in French and English in another hand. Including treatises by or attrib...