Add MS 78439

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXII.

1. ff. 1-10. Fragments of a letterbook of Mary Evelyn; 1660s-1671. Consisting of a quarto gathering of 8 leaves, containing autograph copies of her letters, numbered `24’-`29’, with four more unnumbered. None are dated and the addressees are not identified, but on internal evidence all but two (addressed `to a brother' and `Madame' respectively) are to Sir Samuel Tuke and date from the first half of the 1660s. Followed by a bifolium containing autograph copies of letters to `Brother' [William Glanville?], n.d. [1671?], and `Deare Cousen', 14 Sept. 1671. 190 x 155mm.

2. ff. 11-62. Fragment of a notebook, without cover and with several leaves torn out, containing copies of Mary Evelyn's letters between 1658 and the 1670s, in the hand of Mary, daughter of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart, circa 1730. 200 x 160mm; -(a) f. 11. `To a Lady', n.d; -(b) f. 12. `To a kinsman’ [Sir Samuel Tuke], [1660s], wanting the first leaf (a complete autograph copy is in Add. MS 78435 above, though the endorsed date, 1669, in the hand of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., may not be accurate); -(c) f. 13. `To a Kinsman', requesting patronage, [1660s?]; -(d) f. 14. `To the Countesse of G[uilford] Groom of the Stole', i.e., to Queen Henrietta Maria, [early 1660s]; -(e) f. 14v. `To A Lady'; n.d. (a formal letter of compliment); -(f) f. 15. `To the Viscountess M[ordaunt]' concerning her request to be f[emme] de ch[ambre] to the Queen, circa 1662; -(g) f. 16. `To a Gentleman', circa 1663. On the favourable reception of Tuke's play; -(h) f. 17. `Dear sister' [Elizabeth Carey, Viscountess Mordaunt], [1657]; -(i) ff. 17v-18. `To a kinsman', n.d., referring to `your Polish Embassy’; -(j) ff. 18-19. To an aunt [Susan Hungerford], [1658]. Concerning the death of her son Richard; -(k) ff. 19v-20. To Lady Mordaunt, condoling her on the death of her sister; -(l) ff. 20v-26. `Dear Sister’, n.d. (on the death of a mother); several pages, of which the stubs (ff. 21-25) still show fragments of copies, are torn out at this point in the notebook, but the present letter continues over without a break; (m) f. 26. To `Madam’ [Lady Cotton?], bef. 1664; (n) f. 28. To Countess of Guilford, [early 1660s], recommending a gardener to the Queen Mother at Somerset House; -(o) f. 29. To the same on the same subject; -(p) f. 30. To Sir G[eorge] Car[teret], [1660s].

3. Second notebook containing copies of Mary Evelyn's letters between 1658 and the 1670s in the hand of Mary, daughter of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart; taken in most cases from Mary Evelyn’s own copies in 1 above and in Add. MS 78438. With original wrapper of decorated paper, dated inside the front cover, 10 Aug. 1730: (a) To an unidentified correspondent, with the first leaf missing, beg. `...interposing their sence'; - (b) To Tuke, `no. 29’ in 1 above; -(c) `To a Brother', in 1 above; - (d) To `Madame', in 1 above; - (e) To [Tuke?], in 1 above; - (f) To Bohun, no. 2 in Add. MS 78438; - (g) To Susan Hungerford, 17 July n.y. (no copy elsewhere); - (h) To Bohun, no. 1 in Add. MS 78438; - (i) To [Susan Hungerford?], no. 4 in Add. MS 78438; - (j)To her son, no. 5 in Add. MS 78438; - (k) To Glanville, no. 6 in Add. MS 78438; - (l) To Mary Evelyn, no. 7 in Add. MS 78438; - (m) To Tyrrell, no. 8 in Add. MS 78438; - (n) To the same, no. 9 in Add. MS 78438; - (o) To Tuke, no. 10 in Add. MS 78438’; – (p) To Glanville, no. 11 in Add. MS 78438; - (q) To Elizabeth Evelyn; no. 12 in Add. MS 78438; - (r) To the same, no. 13 in Add. MS 78438; - (s) To Mary Evelyn, no. 14 in Add. MS 78438; - (t) To Glanville, no. 15 in Add. MS 78438; - (u) To Bohun, no. 19 in Add. MS 78438; - (v) To Mrs Evelyn, no. 16 in Add. MS 78438; - (w) To Glanville, no. 17 in Add. MS 78438; - (x) To Bohun, no. 18 in Add. MS 78438.