Add MS 78386

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXIX. `Oeconomics To a newly married friend'; [1676], with a few later amendments. Autograph. Advice on friendship, marriage and the management of a devout household, addressed by Evelyn to Margaret Blagge, whose marriage to Sidney Godolphin was made public in May 1676. Underneath the title is the motto `Un Dieu Un Amy' and the pentacle symbol. With the borders ruled in red ink, and autograph pagination 1-74, but the present text is imperfect; pp. 41-50, apparently concerning children, have been cut out and the last lines on p. 40 and the first on p. 51, the beginning and end of this section, have been obliterated, probably by Evelyn himself in the course of his later revision; pp. 79-84 were amongst the papers removed from the Evelyn archive by William Upcott in the early 19th cent. and are now Add. MS 15950, ff. 108-110; pp. 75-77 and all after p. 85 are untraced. This is one of the manuscripts in Evelyn's list, `Things I would write out faire and reforme if I had Leasure' (MS 330); the emblem, apparently a pearl drop (a reference to Margaret Blagge's name), which Evelyn has sketched in ink against this item in the list, also appears on the front cover of the manuscript. Beal EvJ 145. Formerly Evelyn MS 106.

ff. 78. Quarto notebook with marbled paper cover and later brown paper wrapper. 190 x 150mm.