Add MS 78440

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXIII.

Correspondence and papers of and relating to Mary Evelyn (1665-1685), eldest daughter of John Evelyn; [1675]-1685. Mary Evelyn was born 1 Oct. 1665 and died, unmarried, of small-pox 14 March 1685.

1. Letters from her brother John; [1675]-1676, followed by a letter to his younger sister Elizabeth immediately after Mary’s death; 1685.

2. Letters from her parents; 1680-1685.

3. Letters from her brother’s former tutor, Ralph Bohun; 1676-1684. See Add. MS 15949, f. 142, for a further letter from Bohun.

4. Notebook with paper wrappers, `Mary Evelyn Her Booke of sermon notes 1679'; with additions to 1683. Beneath the title are her initials and a pentacle symbol. Formerly Evelyn MS 108.

5. Account by Mary Evelyn of personal expenditure; April-June 1680.

6. John Evelyn, `Directions for the employment of your time [to Mary Evelyn]'; [early 1680s?]. Autograph. Beal EvJ 206. Formerly Evelyn MS 558.

7. Mary Evelyn’s notes headed, `Necessary Additions to those Directions of my Father when I was at Sayes Court'; [early 1680s?]. Autograph. With the monogram `M.E.’, pentacle symbol, and motto `Redeeme the time' on the verso; for which see also Add. MS 78441 below. Formerly Evelyn MS 322.

8. Notes by Mary Evelyn senior on the disposal of her daughter’s possessions (probably a nuncupative will), together with two autograph copies of her epitaph (one formerly Evelyn MS 418), and a draft memoir; 1685.

9. List by John Evelyn headed, `A Note of what Books and papers were found written by my late Daughter Mary E. after her decease'; 1685. Autograph. Consisting of a bundle of letters marked `A, B', fragments of verses marked `G, H', a parchment book of commonplaces marked `K', a parchment book containing daily confessions, resolutions, and prayers, marked `L', a book of sermon notes bound in green, marked `M', a small parchment book of religious notes, marked `N', translations of prayers from the French, marked `Q', a single leaf containing a list of the books she had read, marked `P', loose papers on religious subjects, etc., marked `Q, R', and a notebook bound in red morocco, marked `R' (probably the volume following). Only the paperbound sermon notes in the present volume and Add. MS 78441 below (apparently the volume marked `R’) now survive. Beal EvJ 49. Formerly Evelyn MS 580.

10. Verses on `Mrs Mary Evelyn’; [1685]. Endorsed in an unidentified hand, `By Mrs Chamberlain’.

11. Fragments of verse, consisting of drafts, a copy of `When I that well framed body see', and the fragment of the beginning of a romance headed, `The History of Melinda'; [early 1680s?]. Not certainly in the handwriting of Mary Evelyn. Formerly Evelyn 322, 313.