Add MS 78300-78322

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 the family archive by the collector William Upcott in the early 19th century. Several of the albums in which he mounted his autograph collection were bought back by the Evelyn family in 1846 and are now in Add. MSS 78678-78689 below; the Evelyn items are highlighted there. Further Evelyn letters from Upcott's collection were purchased by the British Museum at the same period and are now in Add. MSS 15948-15949, 15857-15858, and 15889. See Evelyn’s letterbooks (Add. MSS 78298-78299 above) for copies of his letters to some of the individuals whose letters to him are in the following sequences. His letters to other family members whose papers form separate sections in the present archive, notably his wife, son and grandson, brother and father-in-law, are to be found in these sections of the archive.

Twenty-three volumes.