Add MS 78435

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXVIII.

1. Letters to Mary Evelyn from Sir Samuel Tuke, 1[superscript]st[/superscript] Bart., 1649-[1670?], and his wives, Mary (Guldeford), 1665-1666, and Mary (Sheldon), 1675-1704, and the latter's daughter Mary, 1684-1706; 1649-1706. Including two retained [italics]copies[/italics] of Mary Evelyn's letters. She entered several copies of her letters to Tuke in her letterbooks, Add. MSS 78438-78439 below. See also Add. MS 15949, f. 130, for another letter of Mary Tuke the daughter. For Tuke and his wives, see Esmond de Beer’s article in [italics]Notes and Queries[/italics], 161 (1931), p. 347. After 1692 Lady Tuke's letters are written from Portugal, where she accompanied the dowager Queen Catherine of Braganza as her bedchamberwoman.

2. Letters to Mary Evelyn from Ralph Bohun, D.C.L. (1685), tutor to John Evelyn junior at Sayes Court and Oxford, 1665-1671, and afterwards Rector of Wotton; 1667-1706. A further letter from Bohun, 6 Sept. 1707, is now in one of William Upcott’s albums, Add. MS 78683 below. Including a few [italics]drafts[/italics] and retained [italics]copies[/italics] of Mary Evelyn's letters. She also entered copies of several of her letters to Bohun in her letterbooks, Add. MSS 78438-78439 below; for her letters to him as sent, see in Add. MS 78539 and two in Upcott’s albums, Add. MSS 78683 and 78686 below.