Add MS 78312-78313

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 insertion in his `Elysium Britannicum' (Add. MS 78343, ff. 66-74, 79, 126, 133-35, below); others were removed by William Upcott and are now Add. MS 15948, ff. 80-96, 136-138, and in the album, Add. MS 78683 below. A copy of one letter of 20 Sept. 1659 is in Sheffield University Library, Hartlib Papers 67/22/1A. Copies of five letters from Evelyn to Beale, 1660-1675, are entered in his letterbooks. For Beale, a writer on orchards and husbandry, whose treatise `Pomona' was published as part of Evelyn's Sylva, see Mayling Stubbs, `John Beale, Philosophical Gardener of Herefordshire', Annals of Science, 39 (1982), pp. 463-489, and 46 (1988), pp. 323-363, Peter H. Goodchild, `John Evelyn, John Beale and Backbury Hill, Herefordshire', Garden History, 19 (1991), pp. 105-127, and Michael Leslie, `The Spiritual Husbandry of John Beale’, in Culture and Cultivation, ed. M. Leslie and T. Raylor (Leicester, 1992).

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