Add MS 78324

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLVII. Continuation by Evelyn of the preceding volume in loose gatherings; Oct. 1697-Feb. 1706, preceded (ff. ii-iii) by an extract on two leaves from the earlier volume, June 1651 (see also Beal EvJ 219 and 220 for what are evidently two further copies of this in other collections); 1651-1706. Autograph. The first leaf of the main text is headed `Joyn the following pages to the r[est] of my Diary. 1697. next October 31'. As de Beer remarks, it was clearly only lack of space in the preceding volume which caused this last section to be preserved separately. This part of the diary was published in the Abinger Monthly Record, I, II, and III (1889-93), passim (for an incomplete sequence of these issues, see Add. MS 78576 below). The text is discussed by de Beer in Diary, I, pp. 46-47.

ff. iv + 91. Paper in quarto gatherings of differing sizes, 190 x 160mm. largest size. When acquired by the British Library this part of the diary was in the form of 26 sewn gatherings (numbered by Evelyn I-II, IV-XVII), enclosed in paper covers (or end papers), Some leaves were misplaced when it was put together (there are autograph notes to this effect at the bottom of f. 11v and the top of f. 14); one is missing (between ff. 8 and 9) and the edges of some others had been damaged by the lack of a binding. On the front paper cover was written the early 19th cent. binding instruction, `1/2 Bd Red Morocco Hollow back not cut. Upcott. Brown paper inside'; this either relates to the preceding volume or indicates an unfulfilled plan to put this continuation into a matching binding. In 1998 the leaves were repaired and cased in limp vellum. 200 x 165mm.