Add MS 78192

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. XXV. Correspondence of Sir Richard Browne with: Edward Hyde, 1^st Earl of Clarendon, etc.; 1646-1660, 1667. Mostly autograph and drafts or copies, signed. Partly cipher, deciphered. Partly French. Clarendon’s letters, sixty-three in number, all without address or direction, are dated from Jersey, Paris, Cologne, Antwerp, Bruges, etc., between 12 July 1646 and 28 Feb. 1660. Those of 8, 10 and 18 Feb. 1653 are in the hand of his secretary William Edgeman, signed by Hyde, with that of 16 Aug. 1659 in an unidentified hand. Thirty-nine draft or copy letters, etc., of Browne (ff. 17-91) are mostly dated from Brest and Paris, 21 April 1653-14 May 1660. Also included is a copy (f. 55) of Browne’s letter, in French, of 7 June 1654 to the connoisseur Guillaume Perrochel, conseiller and mâitre d’hôtel du roi, seeking his aid to place the young painter Philippe Duval (d. 1709) of Brest under some master (in the event, Charles Le Brun) in Paris. At the end is a copy in Evelyn’s hand of ‘The humble Petition and Addresse of Edward, Earle of Clarendon’ to Parliament of Nov. 1667, following his impeachment, first printed in State Tracts, I (1693), pp. 377-379. Forty-six letters of Clarendon and nine of Browne were printed in Memoirs Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, Esq. F.R.S., ed. William Bray (1818), II, and later editions. Many letters are docketed in a later hand, probably that of Sir John Evelyn, 1^st Bart., and annotated in pencil by a 19^th cent. editor with notes about copying. Four more letters from Hyde to Browne and one from his daughter Anne Hyde (afterw. Duchess of York), removed by William Upcott, are now in his albums in Add. MSS 78678 and 78687 below. For a draft letter of Browne to Anne Hyde, 1 June 1657, see Add. MS 78199. Formerly Evelyn MS 10.

ff. 101. Binding of half red morocco and grey boards, similar to other bindings added by William Upcott. 240 x 195mm.