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1. Add MS 78298-78429

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Title:
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...
Scope & Content:
John Evelyn, diarist: Correspondence and papers: 1635-1706.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1635-1706
Extent:
161 items

2. Add MS 78323-78326

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Title:
Diary Manuscripts
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1620-1737]
Extent:
4 items

3. Add MS 78298-78322

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Title:
: Letterbooks and Correspondence
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1635-1706]
Extent:
25 items

4. Add MS 78353-78359

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Title:
Verse and Drama
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1600-1706]
Extent:
7 items

5. Add MS 78402-78413

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Title:
Inventories, Accounts and Wills
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1600-1709]
Extent:
14 items

6. Add MS 78334-78352

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Title:
Manuscripts relating to Virtuoso Projects
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1560-1799]
Extent:
20 items

7. Add MS 78414-78429

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Title:
Manuscripts, etc., collected by John Evelyn
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
[1200-1999]
Extent:
35 items

8. Add MS 78327-78333

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Title:
Commonplace Collections 78327-78333. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CLX-CLXVI. Commonplace books or adversaria of John Evelyn; [1649-1703?]. Mostly autograph, but begun by Richard Hoare, the professional scribe whom Evelyn brought from England to Paris with him in 1649 to help `reduce my studies into a method’ (to Sir Richard Browne, 14 June 1649; Add. MS 78221), and continued by Evelyn himself after Hoare had left his service. Evelyn in Memoires for my Grandson, p. 44, recommends the making of com...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1649-1703?]
Extent:
7 items

9. Add MS 78360-78392

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Title:
Devotional Manuscripts 78360-78392. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CXCIII, CCXXV. These are the most extensive category in the archive. They consist of notes and commentaries on the Bible, sermon notes, essays on religious subjects, but chiefly of private devotional works and meditations. Many of them were written or adapted for, or otherwise associated with Margaret Blagge (1652-1678), the maid of honour at the Restoration court, with whom Evelyn made a pact of spiritual friendship in October 1672...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1600-1740]
Extent:
40 items

10. Add MS 78393-78401

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Title:
Papers relating to Public Offices and Affairs 78393-78401. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CCXXVI-CCXXXIV. Papers of Evelyn relating to public offices and public affairs; 1660-1701. Evelyn was actively involved in the Restoration of Charles II and afterwards sought public office. He hinted at the possibility of being appointed Historiographer Royal and hoped for the reversion of his father-in-law’s post of Clerk of the Council, but did not succeed in either. However Charles II used him as a governme...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1660-1701
Extent:
9 items