Add MS 78314

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXLVII (ff. 108).

1. ff. 1-53. Letters from Ralph Bohun, D.C.L. (1685), tutor to John Evelyn junior at Sayes Court and Oxford from 1665 till January 1671 (Diary, III, p. 566), and Rector of Wotton from 1701 until his death in 1716; 1665-1706. Including one letter from his uncle Dr Ralph Bathurst, Master of Trinity, concerning Bohun, 1668, and one draft from Evelyn to Bohun, 1701. For Bohun's surviving papers, including his correspondence, manuscript sermons and library catalogue, see Add MSS 78539-78542 below. One further letter from Bohun to Evelyn, removed by William Upcott, is in his album, Add. MS 78683 below.

2. ff. 54-84. Correspondence with Samuel Pepys; 1665-1703. Followed by one letter from John Jackson, 1703, announcing Pepys's death. Several of Pepys's letters written in an official capacity are in clerks' hands and signed only; Evelyn's letters are mostly drafts and copies, but include several originals which were added to the archive by purchase: 1 May 1665, Sotheby's, June 1869, lot 364; 1 Dec. 1681, Simon Finch Rare Books, Oct. 1998 (untraced in de la Bédoyère below); 1 March 1686, 4 Oct. 1689 and 11 Jan. 1690, from Samuel John Davey as traced by de la Bédoyère in the edition noted below. In addition to the loose drafts and copies, Evelyn entered copies of some of his letters to Pepys in his letterbooks. The association between Pepys and Evelyn began while Evelyn was Commissioner for Sick and Wounded Seamen in 1665 and in their later years became a close friendship. Because of its attraction for collectors, their correspondence is now widely dispersed and a number of Pepys's letters are untraced (although some removed by William Upcott are in his albums, Add. MSS 78680, 78684 below). The whole surviving correspondence on both sides is published in Particular Friends, ed. Guy de la Bédoyère (Boydell, 1997), which points out that Evelyn's letterbook copies sometimes differ significantly from the versions sent where these can be traced.

3. ff. 85-108. Letters from Benjamin Tooke and his son and namesake, booksellers, of Middle Temple Gate, Fleet Street; 1674-1704. Tooke the elder published Evelyn's Navigation and Commerce (1674), Numismata (1697), and Acetaria (1699).