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1. Add MS 78300-78322

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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...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1635-1706
Extent:
23 items

2. Add MS 78307

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXL (ff. 165). Correspondence with Margaret (Blagge) Godolphin, [1672?]-1678, her husband Sidney Godolphin, afterwards Baron and 1st Earl of Godolphin, 1676-1704, and their son Francis, afterwards 2nd Earl of Godolphin, 1690-1702; 1673-1704. Evelyn's letters are drafts or c...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1671-1704
Extent:
1 item

3. 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

4. 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

5. Add MS 78308

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXLI (ff. 209). Letters from John, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, 1676-1677, his wife, Christian, Lady Berkeley, 1676-1685 (with one draft reply from Evelyn), and one letter from their eldest son Charles, afterwards 2nd Baron Berkeley, 1677 (f. 171); 1675-1685. A few of Ber...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1675-1685
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 78310

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXLIII. Letters from Charles, Lord Spencer, the second enclosing a copy of a dissertation in Latin (formerly Evelyn MS 226); 1691, [1690]. Three further letters, 1690-1694, are in Add. MS 78679 below. Copies of letters from Evelyn are entered in his letterbook. The dissertat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1690-1691
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 78312-78313

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CXLV, CXLVI. Letters from John Beale, D.D., F.R.S. (1608-1683), Rector of Yeovil; 1659-1679. Partly Latin, including some verse. Some of the letters are in the hands of amanuenses and signed or initialled by Beale. Several have formerly been damaged by damp and are now discoloured and have portions of text missing. Further letters from Beale to Evelyn, once part of this sequence, were removed by Evelyn to the collection of notes and documents put together for inserti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1659-1679
Extent:
2 items

8. Add MS 78300

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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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1652-1705
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 78305

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXXXVIII (ff. 89). Letters to Evelyn from his sister Jane (1616-1651), 1638-1651 (including one draft reply); her husband William Glanville, 1642-1694, and their son William Glanville, 1695-1702. William Granville’s first letter is in Latin. A number of the letters have be...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1638-1702
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 78306

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXXXIX (ff. 161). 1. ff. 1-85. Letters from Evelyn's parents-in-law, Lady (Elizabeth) Browne (née Pretyman), 1647-1649, and Sir Richard Browne, 1652-1681. With the exception of a few letters of 1652, all Browne's letters in this series are dated after 1660. For further le...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1647-1697
Extent:
1 item

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