Add MS 78309

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXLII (ff. 143).

1. ff. 1-21. Letters to Evelyn from Elizabeth Carey, wife of John, Viscount Mordaunt, 1655-1678, with one copy of a letter from Evelyn, 1678, and preceded by one note of 1650 from her sister Philadelphia, afterwards wife of Sir Henry Lyttelton, 2nd Bart.; 1650-1678. Copies of several more letters from Evelyn to Lady Mordaunt are entered in his letterbook. One letter from her and three from her husband to Evelyn, removed by William Upcott, are now in his album, Add. MS 78679 below.

2. ff. 22-52. Letters to Evelyn from Anne Howard, daughter of the Hon. William Howard and wife (1677) of Sir Gabriel Sylvius; 1675-1694. Copies of letters from Evelyn to her before and after her marriage are entered in his letterbooks, Add. MSS 78298-78299 above.

3. ff. 53-78. Letters to Evelyn from Anne (Digby) Spencer, wife of Robert, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, including copies of three letters from Evelyn to her; 1678-1702. The remainder of Lady Sunderland's letters to Evelyn, 1675-1699, were removed by William Upcott and are now in Add. MS 15889 and in Upcott's album, Add. MS 78679 below. Several letters to Lady Sunderland are entered in Evelyn's letterbooks. Followed (f. 77) by a letter from her son, Charles, Lord Spencer, afterwards 3rd Earl of Sunderland; 1689 (for further letters from hin, separately bound, see Add. MS 78310 below).

4. ff. 79-143. Correspondence of Evelyn with Jael (Godolphin) Boscawen, widow of Edward Boscawen, M.P., and sister of Sidney, 1st Earl of Godolphin, including (f. 81) one letter on her behalf from her sister Penelope Godolphin; 1680-1705. The last letters in the sequence concern the negotiations for the marriage of the Boscawens' daughter Anne to Evelyn's grandson, John Evelyn, afterwards 1st Bart.