John Evelyn

1620–1706

Introduction

John Evelyn is principally remembered for his extensive Diary — the most celebrated and most historically informative English diary of the seventeenth century after that of his friend Samuel Pepys — a journal which, however, remained virtually unknown until the selective edition by Bray and Upcott appeared in 1818. More recently, Evelyn has been celebrated, largely through Keynes's bibliography, as a great bibliophile and some attention has begun to be paid to his wide-ranging original writings. In his lifetime Evelyn published some thirty-two books (including translations from several languages) on topics as diverse as the cultivation of fruit trees and the Jansenist controversies, as well as making occasional contributions to the work of others. His very numerous unpublished writings include poems and plays, as well as essays, notes and unfinished literary fragments. In addition, he conducted a voluminous correspondence and held various offices of state which resulted in the production of even more documentary material.

The Christ Church Evelyn Collection

The bulk of Evelyn's extant papers, including most of his Diary (*EvJ 215-217), was preserved from 1949 to 1995 as the Evelyn Collection at Christ Church, Oxford. This collection, then comprising 605 numbered manuscripts or manuscript volumes, in addition to a multitude of unnumbered papers of differing sizes, was probably the greater part of the archive that Evelyn left at his death in Wotton House, Surrey. It ranged from extensive autograph writings to miscellaneous estate and family papers, some in other hands, including many manuscripts of others' composition which Evelyn simply owned. Besides suffering some damage through the effect of damp in the cellars at Wotton, where the papers were put for safe keeping (Keynes, p. 22), the archive is not intact since an unspecified, though probably quite limited, number of manuscripts appear to have disappeared over the years through neglect or dispersal. When the antiquary William Upcott (1779-1845) visited the eccentric Lady Evelyn (d.1817) in 1813 — at which time, incidentally, he discovered the Diary — he found (so he claimed) that she had been allowing her household to cut up some of the papers for dress patterns and he did not scruple to accept from her (out of sixteen trunks of such documents) packets and basketsful of papers when she learned that he was interested in old Letters and hand writings (Keynes, p. 29; de Beer, I, 53-4; and an account by Upcott written 15 June 1833 was sold at Sotheby's, 10 July 1986, lot 54, to Quaritch). Certainly, whatever his method of acquiring them, Upcott had many of Evelyn's papers and books among his own collections afterwards. A number appear in the privately-printed catalogue of Original Letters, Manuscripts, and State Papers, Collected by William Upcott (1836), and sixty-three lots of books and manuscripts of Evelyn are listed in the catalogues of the posthumous sale of Upcott's collections conducted by Sotheby's, in the Evans sale rooms on New Bond Street, on 15-19, 22-4 and (pictures) 25-7 June 1846. Many of these lots were actually bought back for the Evelyn family: see the summary of the sale in the Gentleman's Magazine, 26, ii (1846), 491-6. This brief account of dispersal also excludes considerations of those manuscripts which Evelyn sent to the printer (who on at least one occasion lost his original manuscript before it was used: see Keynes, p. 106), as well as those he may have disposed of during his lifetime. In a letter to Pepys on 6 December 1681, for instance, he refers to one such lost discourse wherein I did attempt to shew how far a gentleman might become very knowing, and to good purpose, by the onely assistance of the modern languages (Keynes, pp. 21-2).

The British Library

The entire Evelyn Collection deposited at Christ Church was sold by the Evelyn family to the British Library in 1995. It now comprises 526 manuscript volumes (Add. MSS 78168-78693). Reassembled and usually rebound for conservation purposes, the papers have been catalogued by volume, principally by Frances Harris, and this is available online on the British Library's website.

Given the extent and availability of this cataloguing, most of the entries for Evelyn originally supplied in IELM, II.i (1987) are now outdated. For present purposes, few changes or additions to the entries are made, but most of them can now be supplied with their new British Library call numbers. A small number of items, mainly brief notes and the like, have not yet been identified, but will certainly be somewhere among the British Library collection and will no doubt be found in due course. These items are listed in CELM with repository and shelfmark Untraced, Evelyn Collection.

In what remains only a selective and provisional guide to Evelyn's extant writings, the entries in CELM are arranged in the following categories. Known manuscripts of works published in Evelyn's lifetime are recorded in the first part of the Prose section (EvJ 11-25), while separate categories are given to his Diaries (EvJ 215-23) and to a small corpus of Verse (EvJ 1-10) and Dramatic Works (EvJ 212-214) among his unpublished papers. The remainder of his unpublished writings, which occupy the majority of the entries, as well as those works in manuscript that were published posthumously, are listed here as Miscellaneous Remains in the second part of the Prose section (EvJ 26-211) with titles or convenient subject headings supplied where necessary. These papers, which include commonplace books and devotional compilations (the latter usually written for Margaret Blagge [Mrs Godolphin]), comprise writings on scholarly, philosophical, historical, antiquarian, heraldic, grammatical, theological, economic, musical, horticultural, autobiographical and personal domestic subjects. They also include some of Evelyn's scientific writings — not least the remains of the unfinished scientific project on which he worked for some years, his Elysium Britannicum (EvJ 73.5-79) — these being a reminder of Evelyn's role as one of the earliest members of the Royal Society, to which he contributed original papers on such subjects as printing (EvJ 55-56) and paper-making (EvJ 86-90).

The majority of Evelyn's miscellaneous papers recorded in CELM are autograph, but some contemporary copies have been given entries, including manuscripts in the neat calligraphic hand of Richard Hoare who, after 12 March 1648/9, was employed for many years as Evelyn's amanuensis (he was ultimately dismissed as unsatisfactory, it seems, and a number of his transcripts bear Evelyn's remarks declaring how full of errors they are). Many scores of other manuscripts in the Evelyn Collection, not recorded here, are written for the most part in other hands and represent collections of both Evelyn and his family rather than original compositions by him. These manuscripts, many of which contain Evelyn's autograph inscription and motto, include a multitude of historical and theological tracts, papers relating to naval matters, an important original correspondence between Charles I and Sir Edward Nicholas [see Bray, II, part ii], two commonplace books of Evelyn's cousin the dramatist Sir Samuel Tuke, and compilations of papers by other members of Evelyn's family, including notably his father-in-law Sir Richard Browne.

Presentation Volumes Inscribed by Evelyn

Many exempla of his own printed works, suitably inscribed, were presented by Evelyn to friends and influential figures, while in other exempla still he sometimes made autograph corrections to the text. In instances where such corrections and revisions virtually amount to projected new editions, separate entries are given in CELM (whether locations are currently known or not: see *EvJ 1, *EvJ 12, *EvJ 21, *EvJ 25). Many other volumes containing autograph inscriptions, corrections or notes (the majority recorded in Keynes), but which have not been given separate entries, include the following:

Acetaria. A Discourse of Sallets (London, 1699): Harvard [with a presentation letter to the Duchess of Beaufort]; Hodgson's, 16 December 1913 (Edward Dowden sale), lot 114 [inscribed to Sir Christopher Wren]; Sotheby's, 7 April 1930 (Dr Paulin Martin sale), lot 34, to J.D. Christie; H.A. Levinson, catalogue, April 1956 ([inscribed to Lord Chesterfield]); and Christie's, 13 July 1978, lot 1678, to Lawson (facsimile in the catalogue, Plate 13).
An Apology for the Royal Party (2nd edition, 3rd issue, 1659): Cambridge University Library, Keynes.B.1.25 (Bibliotheca Bibliographici No. 2002 [inscribed to Colonel Morley]).
A Character of England (2nd edition, London, 1659): British Library (292. a. 43).
The Compleat Gard'ner; or, Directions for Cultivating and Right Ordering of Fruit-Gardens and Kitchen-Gardens [trans. from Jean de La Quintinye] (London, 1693): Hodgson's, 30 October 1930, lot 587, to Lee [inscribed to Lord Godolphin]; and Christie's, 13 July 1978, lot 1730, to Quaritch [inscribed to William Glanville, Jr: facsimile in the sale catalogue].
An Essay on the First Book of T. Lucretius Carus De Rerum Natura (London, 1656): Clark Library, Los Angeles (*PR3433 E5Z4e. cop. 2) [inscribed to Lord Offley]; Harvard [inscribed to Edward Luttrell]; and Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library (1001) [inscribed to Samuel Pepys].
Fumifugium: or The Inconveniencie of the Aer and Smoak of London dissipated (London, 1661): Christie's, 13 July 1978, lot 1683, to Weinreb.
The Golden Book of S^t. John Chrysostom (London, 1659): Bodleian (Linc 8° A. 125 [inscribed to Dr Thomas Barlow]).
The History of the Three late Famous Impostors (London, 1669): British Library (Eve. a. 25: bought at Christie's, 13 July 1978, lot 1684, with a facsimile in the sale catalogue).
An Idea of the Perfection of Painting [trans. from Roland Fréart, Sieur de Chambray] (London, 1668): British Library (Eve. a. 19: [inscribed to Ralph Bathurst]. Bought at Christie's, 13 July 1978, lot 1723, with a facsimile in the sale catalogue; previously at Sotheby's, 29 November 1972, lot 352, and at Christie's, 23 November 1998, lot 79); and Harvard (*EC65.Ev226.668f [inscribed to Sir Peter Lely]).
Instructions concerning Erecting of a Library [trans. from Gabriel Naudé] (London, 1661): Bodleian (Linc 8° B. 385 [inscribed to Dr Thomas Barlow]); and Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library (789 [inscribed to Samuel Pepys]).
Kalendarium Hortense: or, the Gard'ners Almanac (2nd edition, London, 1666): British Library (G.2299 [inscribed to Lord Arlington]).
Kalendarium Hortense: or, the Gard'ners Almanac (7th edition, London, 1683): Library Company of Philadelphia (Wing E 3497 66635.0 [inscribed to My noble L^d]).
Kalendarium Hortense: or, the Gard'ners Almanac (8th edition, London, 1691): Harvard [inscribed to Dr Ashe].
The Mystery of Jesuitism; or The new Heresie of the Jesuites [trans. from Antoine Arnauld] (London, 1664): British Library (C.53.bb.20 [inscribed to Sir Henry Herbert]; and Eve. a. 34 [bought at Christie's, 13 July 1978, lot 1717, with facsimiles in the sale catalogue, Plate 18, and in Keynes, p. 127]).
Navigation and Commerce, their Original and Progress (London, 1674): British Library (713.b.3 [inscribed to Henry Slingsby]; C. 112. b. 11); Maggs's sale catalogue, June 1921 [inscribed to Sir Henry Capell]; McLeish & Son, sale catalogue, October 1950 ([inscribed to the second Baron Gorges of Dundalk]).
Numismata. A Discourse of Medals, Ancient and Modern (London, 1697): British Library (C.71.g.3 [inscribed to Sir Hans Sloane]); Huntington (RB 65848); and Blackwell's sale catalogue A20 (1981), item 62 [inscribed to Lord Clarendon, bought from Christie's, 13 July 1978, lot 1697].
Of Liberty and Servitude [trans. from the Sieur de la Mothe le Vayer] (London, 1649): Pierpont Morgan Library (W 3 B (annotations edited in the TLS, 5 April 1951)).
A Panegyric to Charles the Second (London, 1661): Cambridge University Library, Keynes.Q.6.17(2) (Bibliotheca Bibliographici No. 2039).
A Parallel of the Antient Architecture with the Modern [trans. from Roland Fréart, Sieur de Chambray] (London, 1664): Bodleian (Antiqu. A II. 1) [inscribed to the Bodleian Library]; British Library (Eve.c.20: Sotheby's, 31 October 1928, lot 818, to Thorp [inscribed to Sir Christopher Wren; bought at Christie's, 13 July 1978, lot 1726]; Christie's, 13 July 1978, lot 1727, to Quaritch [inscribed to John Beale: facsimile in the sale catalogue, Plate 20]).
A Philosophical Discourse of Earth (London, 1676): Cambridge University Library, Keynes.B.2.35 (Bibliotheca Bibliographici No. 2040).
Publick Employment and an Active Life…prefer'd to Solitude (London, 1667): British Library (Eve.a.15 [inscribed to Boyle; bought at Christie's, 13 July 1978, lot 1704: facsimile in the sale catalogue, Plate 15]; Yale (Osborn pb 25), bought at Christie's, 12 October 1977, lot 62) [inscribed to his brother R. Evelyn]: facsimile in the sale catalogue, frontispiece; the inscribed front leaf found to be missing and the volume returned to Christ Church, Oxford.
Sculptura: or the History, and Art of Chalcography and Engraving in Copper (London, 1662): British Library (Eve.a.19 [bought at Christie's, 13 July 1978, lot 1705: facsimiles in the sale catalogue, Plates 16 and 17]); Pierpont Morgan Library (7700 [inscribed to Sir Thomas Browne: a facsimile in Keynes, p. 119]).
Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees (London, 1664): Brick Row Bookshop, San Francisco, sale catalogue No. 28 (November 1926), item 191 [inscribed to Thomas Chiffing]; Christie's, 13 July 1978, lot 1707, to Marlborough: a facsimile in the sale catalogue [inscribed to Sir Edmund Bowyer]; lot 1708, to Maggs [inscribed to Dr Jaspar Needham]; 8 November 1978, lot 42, to Quaritch: a facsimile in the sale catalogue; 14 June 1979 (Arthur A. Houghton, Jr sale, Part I), lot 202, to Howell [inscribed to Sir George Carteret]; Blackwell's sale catalogue A20 (1981), item 26 [inscribed to Lord Chesterfield]. Keynes records (p. 132) other exempla presented to Sir Thomas Browne (lost), to John Hopkins and to Thomas Chaffinch.
Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees (2nd edition, London, 1670): Library Company of Philadelphia (Wing E 3517 Log. 1730.F [inscribed to Elias Ashmole]); Christie's, 13 July 1978, lot 1709, to Sotheran [inscribed to Dr William Croone]; lot 1710, to Quaritch [inscribed to Dr Colwall]; lot 1711, to Drury [inscribed to John Hoskins]. Keynes records (pp. 132-3) other exempla inscribed for presentation to Sir John Narborough and to Sir Edward Bysshe, the latter now in the library of Robert S Pirie, New York.
Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees (3rd edition, London, 1679): British Library (Eve.b.31); Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library (237 [inscribed to Pepys]). Keynes records (p. 133) other exempla presented to Dr Ralph Bathurst, to Sir Francis North and to Charles Bertie.

Letters

Many other examples of Evelyn's hand survive in the form of personal letters. Evelyn conducted a voluminous correspondence over the course of his long life and several hundred letters by him are still preserved, many in the originals, many others in retained drafts or in copies in his letterbooks. These are in addition to an indeterminate number of letters sent to him by his many correspondents. Among the latter were some of the most distinguished writers and public figures of his time, including Samuel Pepys, to whom a very large number of the surviving letters are addressed. The main collection of Evelyn's correspondence is to be found in the autograph letterbooks (containing over 380 letters from 1679 to 1698) in the Evelyn Papers (British Library Add. MSS 78298, 78399, and 78579). A further volume, containing Evelyn's copies of select letters to particularly important persons from c.1644 to 1679 (including, inter alia, Cowley, Davenant, Waller, Jeremy Taylor and Sir Thomas Browne) is in the private ownership of Lord Camoys, of Stonor Park (a negative microfilm, made in 1969, is in the Bodleian, MS Film 743). Over 1,430 letters sent to Evelyn by correspondents are also among the Evelyn Papers in the British Library, as well as in Add. MSS 15857-15858, 15948-15949, passim.

Other repositories possessing letters by Evelyn include the following:

Bodleian (MSS Ashmole 1115, f. 172r; 1136, ff. 114r, 115r; Aubrey 4, f. 28; Autog. c. 8, ff. 30r-6r; Rawl. A. 170, f. 64r; A. 171, ff. 316r, 328r; A. 179, ff. 8r, 84r; A. 190, f. 10r; A. 195, ff. 77r-8r, 249r-54r; Rawl. D. 391, f. 36r; Rawl. lett. 107, f. 192r; Tanner 27, ff. 37r; 28r, 191r; Tanner letters 37, f. 210r; Wood F.41, ff. 222r, 224r).British Library (Add. MSS 15848, f. 64v; 15858, f. 40r; 15946, f. 47r; 15948, ff. 5r-37r, 155r; 15949, ff. 8r, 21r, 46r; 28104, ff. 18r, 21r; 28167, ff. 11r, 12r; Add. MS 70949, ff. 18r-19v (formerly Loan MS 60/2, item 3 (3)); Sloane MSS 3962, f. 282r; 4037, f. 69r; 4039, f. 404r; 4063, f. 102r; 4075, ff. 91r-7v; Stowe MS 755, f. 37r).Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 5952).Clark Library, Los Angeles (fE935L C697).Eton College (MS 12a). Harvard (*EC65Ev226.699aa; bMSS Eng 991; 992.5; 992.6; 1178; Lowell autograph).Historical Society of Pennsylvania (Dreer Collection, Eng. Prose Writers; Gratz Collection, British Authors, Case 10, Box 29; British Statesmen, Case 9, Box 38).Huntington (HM 25798).Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS S38, Vol. 17, f. 91r).The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House.Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library (2237, pp. 1-2; 2421 (1); and 2873, pp. 53-5, 56-9, 65-89).Maine Historical Society. National Maritime Museum (LBK/8).University of Texas at Austin (Pforzheimer MSS 35D-L).Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 3266; MA 3385; R-V Autographs misc. English; Pepys, S. and Penn, W., Documents).Robert S Pirie, New York (letter to Wren: photocopy in the British Library, RP 161). Princeton, Robert H. Taylor Collection, passim.National Archives, Kew (SP 29 series, passim).Royal Society (Letter Books E.1-E.6; LBC 1. 52; LBC supp. 3. 93; LBO supp. 3. 135; LBC supp. 3. 97; LBO supp. 3. 137; LBC supp. 394; LBO supp. 3. 107).Yale (Osborn Files/Evelyn).

Many of Evelyn's letters are in private collections (recorded, for instance, in various HMC reports) or have appeared in sale catalogues in past centuries. Sale catalogues containing facsimile illustrations of letters by Evelyn include, inter alia: Samuel J. Davey's sale catalogue No. 31 (London, 1889), frontispiece. Maggs's sale catalogues No. 570 (1932), item 1603; No. 605 (1935), item 89; No. 634 (1936), item 655; and elsewhere. Sotheby's, 16 March 1937, lot 488; 23 July 1987, lot 248; and 24 July 1995, lot 487; Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lots 203-5, and 11 June 1980 (Part II), lot 363. Christie's, New York, 6 February 1981 (Prescott sale), lot 107.

Other facsimile examples of letters by Evelyn may be found in Bray, I and II, frontispiece; Miscellaneous Writings, frontispiece; Lawrence B. Phillips, The Autographic Album (London, 1866), p. 19; Catalogue of the Collection of … Alfred Morrison, II (1885), 104-5; Garnett & Gosse (1903), III, 117; Seven Letters of John Evelyn, written between the years 1665 & 1703, [ed. Frances Evelyn Rowley Heygate] (privately printed, Oxford, 1914), pp. 6-7; British Literary Autographs, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenbord et al. (New York, 1981), No. 49; A.M. Broadley, Chats on Autographs (London, 1910), p. 200; and Clara Marburg, Mr. Pepys and Mr. Evelyn (Philadelphia & London, 1935), after p. 8.

There is, understandably, no complete edition of Evelyn's letters, but, in addition to works already mentioned (particularly Bray), various texts have appeared in publications including the following: Robert Boyle, Works, [ed. T. Birch] (London, 1744), V, 397-403; Thomas Birch, History of the Royal Society of London (London, 1756), I, 13-15; Gentleman's Magazine, 67.i (1797), 218-19; William Belve, Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books (London, 1807-12), II, 430-1; London Magazine, 10 (1824), 589-92; Richard Bentley, Correspondence (London, 1842); J.E. Spingarn, Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, II (Oxford, 1908), pp. 310-29; O.F. Morshead, New Light on Pepys, The Times (18 February 1927); Clara Marburg, Mr Pepys and Mr Evelyn (Philadelphia & London, 1935), Appendix; E.V. Unger and W.A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature, 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), III, 1210-32; and Particular Friends: The Correspondence of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn, ed. Guy de Bédoyère (Woodbridge, 1997). Some of Evelyn's letters are also printed in editions of his Diary.

Evelyn's Library

No less widely dispersed than his letters is Evelyn's library, which was plainly the predominant enthusiasm of his life. His importance as a bibliophile is now well established. Among much else, he published a translation of the Advis pour dresser une bibliothèque by Gabriel Naudé, successively librarian of Cardinals di Bagni, Barberini, Richelieu and Mazarin and of Queen Christina of Sweden (Paris, 1627) — viz. Instructions concerning Erecting of a Library (London, 1661) — and he drew up a plan for the library of the Royal Society (*EvJ 46, *EvJ 53). He observed: I ever look upon a Library with the reverence of a temple (Keynes, p. 6). Besides visiting many of the finest European libraries of his day, he built up over the years a highly selective private library of at least 5,000 volumes. He annotated his books profusely in the margin, and showed an almost modern passion for association copies (Keynes, p. 9). He generally entered in them a record of his purchase, his pressmark and his motto (Omnia Explorate, Meliora Retinete; i.e. Proove All things, Retaine the Best: Keynes, p. 12); and he had most of his books bound in his own, sometimes elaborately tooled, bindings (see the discussion and illustrations in Keynes, pp. 24-8). Much is known about his library from several extant manuscript catalogues and other booklists and notes by him (EvJ 34-54), as well as a number of later family library catalogues relating to Wotton now in the British Library. Three catalogues of Evelyn's library — which may correspond with certain of the extant catalogues — were sold in the Upcott sale in 1846 as lots 60-2 (see Keynes, p. 13).

Evelyn himself sold more than 1,500 books when he moved to Wotton towards the end of his life. However, a goodly portion of these was evidently books inherited from his son, John, who died in 1699. Evelyn also disposed of a few books at an earlier date when, as a student, he presented eight theological volumes to Balliol College, Oxford, where they still remain (Keynes, p. 4). Like various of his papers, a number of his books later fell into the hands of William Upcott and appeared in the Upcott sale on 15-19 June 1846. They included works by Elias Ashmole, St Augustine, J. La Bona, G. Botero, Richard Corbett, B. Contino, G.B. Olevano, M. Parker, R. Plot, F. Mauriceau, a Euchiridion legum (1673), Instructions pour l'histoire (1677), Psalms of David (1630 and 1668), Form of a Prayer for Ireland (1693), and other miscellaneous tracts. Some other books separated from the main library have occasionally resurfaced in booksellers' catalogues over the years or are now housed in various public and private collections. The great bulk of Evelyn's library, however, remained with the Evelyn family and was later accommodated, like the Evelyn archive, at Christ Church. They included notably The Book of Common Prayer (London, 1638) which, according to Evelyn's inscription, is the Booke which Charles the first M. B. did use vpon the Scaffold xxx Jan: 1649 being the Day of his glorious Martyrdom. Detached and inscribed title-pages from some of Evelyn's books include examples in the Bodleian (MS Montagu d. 12, f. 315r); British Library (Add. MS 15948, f. 4*r; Add. MS 70949, f. 17r [formerly Loan MS 60/2, item 3 (2)]); Cambridge University Library, Sir Geoffrey Keynes Library (Bibliotheca Bibliographici No. 2084), and Huntington (HM 42760). With these exceptions, the greater part of the Evelyn library at Christ Church was ultimately dispersed in the series of great Evelyn sales at Christie's on 22-23 June, 30 November and 1 December 1977 and 15-16 March, 12-13 July and 8 November 1978.

The single greatest buyer at the Evelyn sales was the British Library, which acquired approximately 340 of the lots, now classified in a special Eve. series. These books include such notable items as Evelyn's copiously annotated set of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1665-1704 (Eve.a.149) and his annotated exempla of works by, among others, Lancelot Andrewes (Eve.b.26 and 50), Robert Boyle (Eve.a.84), Dr Edward Browne (Eve.b.44), Sir Thomas Browne (Eve.a.166 and b.12), Abraham Cowley (Eve.b.28), Thomas Hobbes (Evea.14 and b.38), Richard Hooker (Eve.b.13), Sir Walter Ralegh (Eve.b.36), Elkanah Settle (Eve.b.7), Jeremy Taylor (Eve.a.55-56 and b.40 and b.55), and a volume of Augustan History once owned by Ben Jonson (Eve.c.3). Some other present locations of Evelyn's books include the following:

Cambridge University Library, Keynes.B.1.18 and Keynes.B.1.22 (William Croone, De ratione motus musiulorum, 1664, and J. and V. Nicolas, Scaligerana, 1667: Bibliotheca Bibliographici Nos. 2082-3).
Harvard (*EC65.Ev226.Zz651t [an annotated Terence, 1651]).
Huntington (RB 53556 [Sir Richard Baker, A Chronicle of the Kings of England, 1695: discussed in John Evelyn and Colonel Herbert Morley in 1659-60, Huntington Library Quarterly, 1 (1938), 439-46]).
Library Company of Philadelphia (*STC 7302 1312.Q (S. Preston) [Franciscus Junius, The Painting of the Ancients, 1638]).
Norwich Central Library (L 234905 [Sir Thomas Browne, Certain Miscellany Tracts, 1683]).
Pierpont Morgan Library (2).
Rosenbach Museum & Library (EL2 .C851c 676 [The Compleat Angler, 1676]).

Among the many auction and booksellers' catalogues that have included books from Evelyn's library are:

Thomas Rodd, catalogue (1824), item 4364 [Tacitus, 1622, owned by Evelyn at Oxford in 1638].
Sotheby's, 20 December 1838 (the Rev H.S. Cotton sale), lot 62 [Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler, 1676], to Rodd, and lot 72 [Charles Cotton, Memoirs of the Sieur De Pontis, 1694], to White.
C.J. Stewart, London, sale catalogue of Writers of the Seventeenth and later Centuries [c.1860] [exemplum in British Library, 11900.b.35], item 2428 [Philip Ellis, Sermon, 1686].
Alfred Russell Smith, London, sale catalogue, of upwards of twenty-six thousand Ancient and Modern Tracts and Pamphlets (1874) [exemplum in the British Library, 11903. cc.12], item 7656 [Aristarchus, De magnitudinibus, 1572].
Maggs's sale catalogue No. 503 (1928), item 778 [Paolo Sarpi, Histoire du concile de Trente, 1686].
Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 196 (1900), items 3320-1 [Henricus Oraeus, Nomenclator praecipuorum…doctorum, scriptorum…Hanoviae, 1619, and the grammar Primigeniae voces seu radices linguae Graecae, 1619].
Sotheby's, 20 June 1938 (Ham House sale), lot 313 [John Raymond, An Itinerary contayining a Voyage made through Italy, 1648], to Beckett.
Dawson, sale catalogues No. 208 (1960s), item 177 [Monumentum regale, 1649, etc.]; No. 213, item 415 [Mathias Prideaux, 1682]; 217 (May 1971), item 103 [George Sandys, A Relation of a Iourney begun An: Dom: 1610, 1637].
J. Pearson's sale catalogue 200 Books from the Libraries of …Book-collectors (n.d.), item 62 [Juris et judicii facialis, 1650].
Anthony Laywood, sale catalogues No. 48 (September 1977), item 138 [R.P. Castlemaine, 1666]; No. 51 (March 1978), item 112 [John Chrysostom, 1604]; and No. 55 (1978), item 158 [Thomas May, 1633].
Blackwell's sale catalogue A20 (1981) (numerous: see summary in The Book Collector, 30 (1981), 538).
Quaritch's sale catalogues English Books before 1701 (October 1983), items 173 [Bacon, Henry the Seventh, 1629] and 347 [Milton, Poems, 1645]; No. 1043, Four Centuries of English Books (December 1984), items 110 [Milton, as before] and 122 [Spelman, Archaeologus, 1626].
Pickering & Chatto's sale catalogue No. 652 (January 1984), item 341 [Ben Jonson, Workes, 1640].
Sotheby's, New York, 31 October 1985, lot 10 [Exquemelin, Bucaniers of America, 1684].
Philip J. Pirages, sale catalogue No 45 (2000), item 18 [Roger Ascham, Familiarum epistolarum, 1590].

For surveys and discussions of Evelyn's library and its formation and catalogues, see, inter alia, Keynes (1968); John Bidwell, Book-Sale Catalogues from the Evelyn Library, 1682-92, in Fine Books and Book Collecting, ed. Christopher de Hamel and Richard A. Linenthal (Leamington Spa, 1981), pp. 62-4, with a facsimile; G. de la Bédoyère, John Evelyn's Library Catalogue, The Book Collector, 43 (1994), 529-48, including facsimile examples; and articles by Nicolas Barker, Michael Hunter, and others (with facsimile examples and including a checklist of Evelyn's books in the British Library) in John Evelyn in the British Library (London, 1995 [first published in The Book Collector, 44/2 (Summer 1995), pp. 147-238)]; and Mirjam Foot, John Evelyn's Bookbindings, and Giles Mandelbrote, John Evelyn and his Books, both, with numerous facsimile examples, in John Evelyn and his Milieu, ed. Frances Harris and Michael Hunter (London, 2003), pp. 61-70 and 71-94 respectively.

Various inscriptions and annotated pages in books from Evelyn's library are illustrated in the Christie's sale catalogues, in Keynes (pp. 10-11), and elsewhere.

Miscellaneous Documents

Among other items that have not been given separate entries here are Evelyn's autograph notes added to two manuscript works by John Aubrey in the Bodleian: one The Naturall Historie of Wiltshire, 1685 (MSS Aubrey 1, 2), where Aubrey records (MS 1, f. 3v) that he has runne them all over againe with Inke; the other his Monumenta Britannica of 1665-93 (MSS Top. gen. c. 24, 25), of which there is a copy in the British Library (Add. MS 78659). Original contributions by Evelyn to Bishop Gibson's edition of Camden's Britannia (London, 1695) are among Gibson's collections in the Bodleian (MSS Dep. c. 225-6).

Other domestic and official papers partly written, signed or endorsed by Evelyn include various documents in the British Library (Add. MS 20731, ff. 2r-5v; Add. MS 70949, ff. 20r-2r (formerly Loan MS 60/2, item 3 (4))); Clark Library, Los Angeles (E935Z D311 1693 Bound; fE 935L C697); Harvard (bMS Eng 991; MSS Eng 992.3, Eng 992.4; and Eng 1178); Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library (287, pp. 549-50); and National Archives, Kew (SP 29/199/3; SP 29/210/47; SP 29/254/119; SP 29/279/100A; and SP 29/311/13).

Letters concerning the publication of Evelyn's Memoirs in 1818 are in the British Library (Add. MS 15951). Transcripts of manuscripts used for de Beer's edition of the Diary in 1955 are in the Bodleian (MSS Eng. misc. c. 335-7).

Abbreviations

de Beer: The Diary of John Evelyn, ed. E.S. de Beer, 6 vols (Oxford, 1955).
Bray: Memoirs, illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, Esq. F.R.S., ed. William Bray [and William Upcott], 2 vols (London, 1818).
Hiscock (1951): W.G. Hiscock, John Evelyn and Mrs Godolphin (London, 1951).
Hiscock (1955): W.G. Hiscock, John Evelyn and his Family Circle (London, 1955).
Keynes: Sir Geoffrey Keynes, John Evelyn: A Study in Bibliophily with a Bibliography of his Writings [1st edition, Oxford, 1947], 2nd edition (Oxford, 1968).
Miscellaneous Writings: The Miscellaneous Writings of John Evelyn, Esq. F.R.S. … now first collected, with occasional notes, ed. William Upcott (London, 1825).
Sampson: John Evelyn, The Life of Mrs Godolphin, ed. Harriet Sampson (Oxford, 1939).
Wheatley (1893): Henry B. Wheatley, Appendix [on John Evelyn] to The Present Condition of English Bibliography, and Suggestions for the Future, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, 1 (1893), pp. 61-90 (pp. 77-90).
Wheatley (1906): Diary of John Evelyn Esq., F.R.S. to which are added a selection from his familiar letters and the private correspondence … Edited … by William Bray, [and William Upcott], new edition by Henry B. Wheatley, 4 vols (London, 1906).

Verse

An Essay on the First Book of T. Lucretius Carus De Rerum Natura. Interpreted and made English Verse

First published in London, 1656. Keynes, pp. 41-5.

*EvJ 1

Autograph

Exemplum of the first printed edition with Evelyn's autograph motto, inscription and extensive marginal notes and corrections in ink and pencil.

c.1656

Volume CLXXXVI of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn B67.

Recorded in Keynes, p. 44. Facsimile example in Christie's sale catalogue, 13 July 1978, lot 1732.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78353)

*EvJ 2

Autograph

Autograph fair copy of a translation of Books III to VI (line 694) of De rerum natura, headed On the Third Booke of T. Lucretius C. de R.N., being an unpublished continuation of Evelyn's published translation (1656), iii + 155 quarto leaves, in 19th-century leather.

1656-7

Owned in 1818 by William Upcott. Bought at the Upcott sale on 22 June 1846, lot 117. Volume CLXXXVII of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 34.

This MS recorded in Keynes, p. 42.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78354)

*EvJ 3

Autograph

Autograph commentary on Lucretius, De rerum natura, Books III-VI, iv + 159 quarto leaves, in contemporary vellum.

1656-7

Volume CLXXXIX of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 33.

This MS recorded in Keynes, p. 42.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78356)

*EvJ 4

Autograph

Autograph draft translation of Lucretius, De rerum natura, Book VI.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 34a.

Eveylyn's Lucretius, 30 + iii leaves.

1657

Volume CLXXXVIII of the Evelyn Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78355 ff. 1r-27r)

*EvJ 5

Autograph

Autograph fragment of a verse translation of De rerum natura, dated 11 September 1657.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 540.

Eveylyn's Lucretius, 30 + iii leaves.

1657

Volume CLXXXVIII of the Evelyn Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78355 ff. 28r-30r)

Otium Evelyni

*EvJ 6

Autograph

Autograph quarto volume of poems in draft and fair copies, i + 70 leaves (including blanks), damaged by damp, in black calf gilt.

Including, inter alia, an Italian version of Vpon my Lady Isabella Thynns cutting of Trees in paper Translated from M^r: Waller (f. 9v), Upon my worthy kinsman Sr Sam: Tuke de his incomparable play (p. 51), On the Dutchess of New-Castles coming to the Royal Society 1666 (f. 26r-v), Ballad: To the tune of S^r. Jo: Sucklings I'le tell the Dick (pp. 52-3), To Abraham Cowley sending me his Poeme — The Garden (ff. 27v-8v), and Elegie [on Cowley] (ff. 29v-31r).

Volume CXC of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 124.

This MS recorded in Keynes, p. 21. The poem on p. 51 pub. in Samuel Tuke, The Adventures of Five Hours, 2nd edition (London, 1664), sigs A3b-A4a [Keynes, p. 259]. The poem on pp. 59-62 edited from this MS in Allan Pritchard, Editing from Manuscript: Cowley and the Cowper Papers, in Editing Poetry from Spenser to Dryden, ed. A.H. De Quehen (New York or London, 1981), pp. 46-76 (pp. 70-4), and the poem on pp. 55-76 of the MS discussed in Pritchard, pp. 69-70. The MS discussed in Stuart Gillespie, Venus in Cypresse sheets, TLS, 30 January 2015, 14-15.

Facsimile of p. 56 in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile XVIII, after p. xxiv.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78357)

[Verses]

EvJ 7 c.1680s

Autograph copy of a poem headed A Pleasant Ballad: How Mop went into France to be a Nunn, on a single folio leaf.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 325.

A collection of verse and other literary material, compiled and partly written or copied by Evelyn, 55 leaves.

Volume CXCII of the Evelyn Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78359 f. 32r)

*EvJ 8

Autograph

Autograph copy of a poem headed How Mop From France is lately come (beginning Mop's arriv'd on English ground), on a single quarto leaf, endorsed Ballad on Mrs Mary Tuke.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 326.

A collection of verse and other literary material, compiled and partly written or copied by Evelyn, 55 leaves.

Volume CXCII of the Evelyn Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78359 f. 33r)

EvJ 9

Autograph Latin verses, one on the New Year of 1695/6, including notes in English on the circumstances of composition, on a single quarto leaf, endorsed In Extempore.

c.1690s

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 557.

Untraced, miscellaneous (Evelyn Collection)

*EvJ 10

Autograph

Autograph copy of verses.

Autograph copy of verses on the entertainment given 30 May 1667 by the Royal Society for the Duchess of Newcastle, headed Ballad. To ye Tune of I'le tell the Dick &c. and beginning I'le tell the Jo: where I have been, on two folio leaves, sent to Sir Joseph Williamson (1633-1701). See also EvJ 6.

c.June 1667

National Archives, Kew (SP 29/450/102)

Prose

Works Published in Evelyn's Lifetime

An Account of Bread

See EvJ 18-20.

A Character of England

First published in London, 1659. Miscellaneous Writings, pp. 141-67. Keynes, pp. 59-67.

EvJ 11

Copy, in a large rounded juvenile hand, possibly a member of the Evelyn family, 89 octavo pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf, with metal clasps.

Late 17th century

John Evelyn's motto, Meliora Retinete, on a flyleaf.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 992.8)

Discourse of Earth

See EvJ 21-23.

Fumifugium

First published in London, 1661.

EvJ 11.5

Extracts and notes.

A memorandum book.

c.1671-89

Cumbria Archives, Carlisle ([unnumbered] [unspecified page numbers])

Instructions concerning Erecting of a Library

First published (trans. from Gabriel Naudé) in London, 1661. Keynes, pp. 103-8.

*EvJ 12

Autograph

Exemplum of the first printed edition, with Evelyn's autograph signature, motto, lengthy letter to Dr Godolphin, Provost of Eton and Dean of St Paul's, and nearly a hundred autograph corrections and alterations.

c.1689

The letter first published in Miscellaneous Writings (1825), p. xii. Edited in the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, K.T., Gabriel Naudé and John Evelyn: with some notes on the Mazarinades, The Library, 4th Ser. 12 (1932), 382-408, where this volume is described with facsimile examples on pp. 393 and 395. Recorded in Keynes, p. 107.

The Earl of Crawford and Balcarres ([no shelfmark])

Lucretius

See EvJ 1-4.

Narrative of the Encounter between the French and Spanish Ambassadors at the Landing of the Swedish Ambassador

First published [? 1661]: no exemplum known. Biographia Britannica, 2nd edition (London, 1793), V, 613-14. An abbreviated version published in Sir Richard Baker, Chronicle of the Kings of England, ed. Edward Phillips, 4th edition (London, 1665), pp. 799-800. Bray, II, part i, pp. 349-55. Keynes, pp. 99-101.

*EvJ 13

Autograph

Autograph fair copy, headed A faithfull and impartial Narrative of w^t pass'd at the Landing of the Swedish Ambass^r, endorsed The Contest [of] the French & Span[ish] Embass^rs: on Towre hill for Praecedency: note: That Copys of this were dispatchd to the L^d: Ambass^r: in France…Another was written to be laydup & kept in y^e paper Office at White-hall, on four folio pages, imperfect.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 319. Edited from this MS in Bray. Recorded in Keynes, p. 100, and in Hiscock (1955), p. 244.

Miscellaneous papers relating to public affairs, 79 + vi leaves.

Volume CCXXVI of the Evelyn Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78393 ff. 10r-11r)

*EvJ 14

Autograph

Autograph fair copy, headed A faithfull and impartial Narrative of what pass'd at the Landing of the Swedish Ambass^r:, on two folio leaves.

[October 1661]

This MS recorded in Keynes, p. 100.

National Archives, Kew (SP 29/43/12)

Naudé's Instructions

See EvJ 12.

Navigation and Commerce

First published in London, 1674. Miscellaneous Writings, pp. 625-86.

Numismata, a Discourse of Medals

First published in London, 1697. Keynes, pp. 229-34.

*EvJ 15

Autograph

Autograph draft, partly deleted, headed Numismae: JE: Foule Copy, 120 numbered pages plus 12 unnumbered leaves, some pages lacking.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 63.

Two autograph papers by Evelyn, ii + 76 leaves.

Volume CLXXXXIII of the Evelyn Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78350 ff. 1r-73r)

EvJ 15.5 c.1700

A summary of the work, in a neat italic hand, as By J. Evelin Esq^r F.R.S. in fol., on five quarto pages.

A folio composite volume of papers, chiefly Accounts of Books, in various hands and paper sizes, 78 items, unfoliated, in modern boards.

Late 17th century

Royal Society, London (Classified Papers XXII (1) item 45)

EvJ 16

Corrected proof; imperfect.

Later owned by William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector. Sotheby's, 16 June 1846 (Upcott sale), lot 555, to Thomas Rodd.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Evelyn proof])

*EvJ 17 1697

Autograph

Autograph draft of the dedicatory epistle in Latin to Charles, Lord Spencer, and Francis Godolphin, on a single quarto leaf. 1 October 1697.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, MS 538.

Two autograph papers by Evelyn, ii + 76 leaves.

Volume CLXXXXIII of the Evelyn Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78350 f. 62r)

Panificium, or The several manners of making Bread in France &c:

First published in John Houghton, A Collection of Letters for the Improvement of Husbandry & Trade (London, 1681), No. 12, pp. 127-36 (dated 16 January 1682/3). Keynes, pp. 261-2.

*EvJ 18 1664/5

Autograph

Autograph, on five pages of three folio leaves, signed and dated by Evelyn 15 Feb: 1664[/5], sent to the Royal Society, inscribed By M^r Evelyn: read Mar: 1: [16]64[/5] Ent^d. R B. 3. 72.

This MS recorded in de Beer, III, 401, n. 8.

A large folio composite volume of tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 68 items, unfoliated, all mounted on guards, in modern boards with ties.

Royal Society, London (Classified Papers III (1) item 19)

EvJ 19

Copy, as by M^r. Evelyn.

A folio register book of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society in 1663-68, largely in one professional italic hand, 311 pages (plus blanks), with a later tipped-in eight-page Table of contents subscribed R. Waller. 1687 and a ten-page index at the end in other hands, in old reversed calf.

1665-87

Royal Society, London (Register Book 3 pp. 72-8)

EvJ 20

Copy of EvJ 19, as by M^r. Evelyn.

A folio duplicate of Register Books 2 and 3 (in part) of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society in 1662-67, in a single professional hand, 353 pages, with an eight-page-page index at the beginning and a twelve-page table of contents at the end, in modern calf.

Early-mid-18th century

Royal Society, London (Register Book Copy 2 pp. 201-7)

A Philosophical Discourse of Earth

First published in London, 1676. Keynes, pp. 207-13.

*EvJ 21

Autograph

Exemplum of the first printed edition with copious autograph notes for a projected new edition (viz. the second edition of 1678), imperfect.

This volume bought at Christie's, 13 July 1978, lot 1701.

The British Library: Rare Books Room (Eve a 24)

EvJ 22

Copy, As it was presented to the R. Society 29. April 1675 By John Evelyn Esquire Fellow of the same, subscribed Read to y^e Society 29 April & 13 May 1675.

A folio register book of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society in 1675-80, largely in one professional hand, 226 pages (plus numerous blanks), with an initial twelve-page index in another hand and, at the end, a nine-page later Table of contents subscribed Ric: Waller: 1687/8, in old reversed calf.

1675-88

Royal Society, London (Register Book 5 pp. 1-52)

EvJ 23

Copy of EvJ 22, As it was Presented to the R: Society 29. April 1675 By John Evelyn Esq^r Fellow of the same, subscribed Read to the Society 29 Aprill & 13. May 1675.

A folio duplicate of Register Books 4 and 5 (in part) of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society in 1674-76, in a single professional hand, 359 pages, with a two-page table of contents at the beginning and a four-page index at the end, in modern calf.

Early-mid-18th century

Royal Society, London (Register Book Copy 4 pp. 130-205)

Sculptura, or the History and Art of Chalcography and Engraving in Copper

First published in London, 1662. Miscellaneous Writings, pp. 243-336.

See EvJ 52 and EvJ 55.

The Sembrador, or a new Invention for the more equall sowing of Wheate and other Grains

First published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 5, No. 60 (20 June 1670), 1055-7. The letter to Brouncker is edited in Miscellaneous Writings, pp. 621-2. Keynes, p. 260.

*EvJ 24 1669/70

Autograph

A partly autograph copy of a tract, with a pen-and-ink drawing and engraving, Translated out of Spanish [of Don Joseph Lucatela, 1668] and Improued & Comunicated by the Royal Society, with a title-page, a letter signed to the Viscount Brouncker, President of the Royal Society and a six-line advertisement at the end all in Evelyn's hand, the rest in the cursive hand of an amanuensis, on 27 folio leaves, rectos only, the letter dated from Sayes Court 23: Feb: [16]69-70, sent to the Royal Society and docketed read Mar: 3: [16]69-70. / trans: 60.

A folio composite volume of tracts and papers, in various hands, seventeen items, unfoliated, in contemporary vellum boards with traces of ties.

Royal Society, London (Extra MS Vol. 1 (MS 366) MS 366/1/3)

Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees

First published in London, 1663.

Miscellaneous Remains

Academical Exercises

*EvJ 26

Autograph

A quarto notebook relating to natural philosophy, c.100 pages, in contemporary limp vellum with remains of leather ties, the front cover lettered by Evelyn Academic Exercises.

Vol LXII of the Evelyn Papers.

c.1623-8

Evans (i.e. Sotheby's), 22 June 1846 (William Upcott sale), lot 59. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 10.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78229)

Adversaria and Commonplace Books

See also EvJ 170.

*EvJ 27

Autograph

Autograph commonplace book, containing a series of observations in Latin and English on a wide variety of subjects, 815 numbered quarto pages (including many blanks), in modern buckram.

c.1680s-1703

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 36.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78332)

*EvJ 28

Autograph

A folio autograph commonplace book containing notes and memoranda, headed A Booke of Promiscuous Notes, & Observations concerning Husbandry, Butlery &c:, 290 pages (including blanks).

c.1650s-70s

Volume CLXXIV of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 44.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78341)

*EvJ 29

Autograph

Partly autograph folio commonplace book containing notes and collections, headed Trades: Seacrets & Receipts, Mechanical as they came casually to hand, 605 pages (including many blanks), in contemporary calf.

Late 17th century

Volume CLXXII of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 65.

In a letter to Mr. Boyle 8 Aug. 1659, [Evelyn] says he had intended to write a History of Trades, but had given it up from the great difficulty he found in the attempt (Bray, II, part I, p. 103).

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78339)

EvJ 30

An oblong octavo commonplace book containing extracts from Quintilian, Seneca and other authors, partly in the hand of John Evelyn the younger, iv + 187 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary calf.

1701/2

Volume LXIII of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 95.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78230)

EvJ 31

Autograph commonplace book containing Adversaria Historical, Physical, Mathematical, Mechanicall &c. promiscuously set downe as they Occur in Reading, or Casual Discourse, on 36 pages in a large folio volume otherwise blank, damaged by damp, in contemporary vellum, originally together with a detached quarto gathering of collections possibly from EvJ 76.

c.1680s-1703

Volume CLXVI of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, MS 173.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78333)

EvJ 32

An autograph commonplace book, 80 octavo pages (the majority blank), in contemporary calf gilt.

Containing miscellaneous anecdotes, proverbs, maxims, extracts in English and Latin, and other notes, headed 1650 Vade Mecum.

c.1650

Inscribed inside the front cover B. J. Ashley (or Astley?). Sotheby's, 10 November 1964, lot 456.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 992.7)

Answer to several Enquiries made by Mr Pepys touching Navigation

EvJ 33

Autograph, on eight folio pages, together with Pepys's Enquiries, dated 7 July 1680.

1680

Later owned by Alfred Morrison (1821-97), manuscript and art collector. Sotheby's, 5 May 1919 (Morrison sale), lot 2820, to G. D. Smith.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Evelyn's Navigation MS])

Books, Manuscripts and Libraries

*EvJ 34 1681

Autograph

Autograph Note of the Books, Prints, Letters, Mapps, Papers of state & particulars, Lent to M^r. Sam: Pepys, Late Secretary to y^e Admiralty to be all returned me againe, on a single folio leaf; 5 December 1681.

A folio composite volume of Evelyn family correspondence, in various hands, c.156 leaves.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 15000 through 16999 (Add. MS 15948 f. 156r)

*EvJ 35

Autograph

Autograph lists of books and manuscripts belonging to and written by Evelyn.

Composite volume of papers by and associated with Evelyn collected by William Upcott.

This volume lot 586 in the Upcott sale on 24 June 1846.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 15000 through 16999 (Add. MS 15950 ff. 76r-80v)

*EvJ 36

Autograph

Autograph MS of a Method for a Library According to the Intellectual Powers, on a single folio leaf (f. 1), with an incomplete catalogue of Libri Theologici and an index of books, 32 folio leaves.

c.1686

Volume CCCCLXIV of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MSS 19, 20 and 259.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78631)

*EvJ 37

Autograph

Library catalogue, partly autograph, with a Method for a Librarie According to the intellectual powers on f. 1r-v, viii + 139 folio leaves.

c.1687

Volume CCCCLXV of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, MS 20a.

This MS bought at the Upcott sale on 22 June 1846 (either lot 60 or lot 61).

Edited in part in Keynes, pp. 297-303. Discussed pp. 13-17, with facsimiles of pp. 1-2 as plates 3 and 4, between pp. 16 and 17.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78632)

*EvJ 38

Autograph

Unfinished autograph library catalogue, inscribed on the paper cover Catalogus Bibliothecae Londinii, comprising a quarto pamphlet of nine leaves with ruled columns and a few headings, the first page with comments (The first Catalogue is Alphabetical. The Second of the Subjects & Falcutys).

c.1690s

Volume CCCCLXVI of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 30.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78633)

EvJ 39

The title-page only of Evelyn's quarto library catalogue of 1653.

The title-page only of Evelyn's quarto library catalogue of 1653, viz. Bibliothecae Euelyni Catalogvs, in the hand of Richard Hoare, mounted at the front of an 18th-century book of accounts.

Volume CCCCLXIV of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 185.

This title-page reproduced in facsimile in Keynes, 1st edition (1937), Plate 3, after p. 14. NB. Keynes also reproduces in this plate, as if part of the same catalogue, a page of a totally unrelated library catalogue (Evelyn MS 27, f. 83), which is a quarto Catalogus Materialis of c.1706.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78630)

*EvJ 40 c.1702-5

Autograph

Autograph list of letters and papers in a closet at Wotton, on a single quarto leaf.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 310.

Miscellaneous papers relating to books, MSS and coins collected by Evelyn and his descendants.

Volume CCCCLXXII of the Evelyn Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78639 No. 11)

*EvJ 41 1702

Autograph

Autograph list of books and manuscripts left at Wotton, on a single scrap of paper, 21 November 1702.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 311.

Miscellaneous papers relating to books, MSS and coins collected by Evelyn and his descendants.

Volume CCCCLXXII of the Evelyn Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78639 No. 12)

*EvJ 42 c.1690s

Autograph

Autograph list of Things I would write out faire and reforme if I had Leasure, on a single quarto lea, with other related papers.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 330. Edited from this MS in Bray, II, part I, p. 104, and in Wheatley (1893), pp. 87-8.

Miscellaneous papers relating to books, MSS and coins collected by Evelyn and his descendants.

Volume CCCCLXXII of the Evelyn Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78639 No. 10)

EvJ 43

Autograph lists, headed Wanting of my L. Clarendons, and Those which I already have are, on a single quarto leaf.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 489.

Untraced, miscellaneous (Evelyn Collection)

EvJ 44

Autograph list of books on a small scrap of paper.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 527.

Untraced, miscellaneous (Evelyn Collection)

EvJ 45

Autograph list of papers on a single slip of paper.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 539.

Untraced, miscellaneous (Evelyn Collection)

*EvJ 46

Autograph

Autograph plan of a Designe for a Library for the Royal Society, given in 22^d May S^r: R: Murray Praesident.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 541.

A folio volume of notes and papers by Evelyn, 136 leaves.

Volume CLXXVII of the Evelyn Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78344 f. 115r)

*EvJ 47

Autograph

Autograph Catalogue of Bookes papers Rolls &c: of my sune Left at London: 1692, on ten quarto pages and slips of paper.

1692

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 576.

Untraced, miscellaneous (Evelyn Collection)

*EvJ 48

Autograph

Autograph list of writings on a fragmentary slip of paper.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 577.

Untraced, miscellaneous (Evelyn Collection)

*EvJ 49 1685

Autograph

Autograph list of books and papers written by Mary Evelyn, the diarist's daughter, compiled by him after her death, on a slip of paper, among other MSS.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 580.

Composite volume of correspondence and papers of Mary Evelyn (1665-85), eldest daughter of John Evelyn.

Volume CCLXXIII of the Evelyn Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78440 item 9)

EvJ 50

Autograph list of historical and geographical works at Wotton, on a slip of paper.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 601.

Untraced, miscellaneous (Evelyn Collection)

*EvJ 51

Autograph

Autograph list of books, endorsed Libri desiderati, on two quarto pages.

Formerly Christ Church, Evelyn MS 603.

Untraced, miscellaneous (Evelyn Collection)

*EvJ 52

Autograph

Autograph list or conspectus of subject categories of books, headed The History of Arts Illiberall and Mechanick, signed and dated by Evelyn, on, on all four pages of two folio leaves sent to the Royal Society. 16 January 1660/1.

This MS (which is related to Sculptura (1662)) recorded in W.R.B. Prideaux, John Evelyn's Designe for a Library, The Antiquary, NS 48 (1912), 127-9, and in Keynes, p. 116.

A large folio composite volume of tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 68 items, unfoliated, all mounted on guards, in modern boards with ties.

Royal Society, London (Classified Papers III (1) item 1)

*EvJ 53

Autograph

Autograph, headed Designe for a Lybrary, being a list of book categories, signed and dated by Evelyn, on one side of a single folio leaf, endorsed For S^r: Robert Murrey [i.e. Sir Robert Moray (1608/9?-73), army officer and politician, a founder member of the Royal Society], sent to the Royal Society. 22 May 1661.

This MS discussed, with a facsimile, in W.R.B. Prideaux, John Evelyn's Designe for a Library, The Antiquary, NS 48 (1912), 127-9. Recorded in Keynes, 18-19.

A large folio composite volume of tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 76 items, unfoliated, all mounted on guards, in modern boards.

Royal Society, London (Classified Papers XVII item 1)

*EvJ 54

Autograph

Evelyn's autograph markings and an eight-line note at the end of the Index titulorum explaining their significance with regard to library classification, in his printed exemplum of Gabriel Naudé's Bibliothecae Cordesianae catalogus (Paris, 1643).

c.1651

Christie's, 15 March 1978, lot 1066 (with a facsimile of the main annotation in the sale catalogue), to Quaritch.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Evelyn's Naudé volume])

Coelum Sanitatis

Probably an English version translated from an anonymous French work of chemistry. Unpublished.

See EvJ 161.

The Construction of y^e Rowling Press, & Manner how to worke off y^e Plates

EvJ 55 1662

Copy of five chapters, in the cursive hand of an amanuensis, headed Booke: II [of Sculptura], as By M^r: Evelyn, on fifteen folio pages, foliated 33r-39r, sent to the Royal Society and inscribed in the margin Read May 14. [16]62.

This MS edited as Part II of Sculptura, ed. C.F. Bell (Oxford, 1906). Recorded in Keynes, pp. 117, 260-1.

A large folio composite volume of tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 68 items, unfoliated, all mounted on guards, in modern boards with ties.

Royal Society, London (Classified Papers III (1) item 2)

EvJ 56

Copy.

This MS recorded in Wheatley (1893), in Bell and in Keynes.

A folio transcript of the Royal Society Register Book, 520 leaves.

After 1661

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 243 ff. 127v-41v)

Directors for improving a short visit to Paris, 1669

*EvJ 57

Autograph

Autograph notes, originally enclosed in a letter to Pepys, 21 August 1669.

1669

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library (MS 2237)

Directions for the Gardiner at Says-Court: But which may be of Vse for other Gardens

*EvJ 58

Autograph

Autograph, together with some unrelated preliminary material and with some later additions by Sir John Evelyn, Bt, 106 quarto pages (plus blanks), in vellum, lettered on the spine Qe Dutch./.

1687[-early 18th century]

Volume CLXXXII of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, MS 136.

Edited from this MS by Geoffrey Keynes (London, 1932). Recorded in Keynes (1968), p. 254.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78349)

Domestic Accounts, Inventories, Instructions, and Estate Papers

*EvJ 59

Autograph

Autograph, headed A Note of Writings & Original Papers & matters of state, Accompts, Letters, Petititons, Grants &c. Relating to S^r: R^d. Browne M^r: Evelyn &c. Concerning ther Title to the pastures & other estate of Saye-Court, on both sides of a folio leaf.

A folio composite volume of correspondence of John Evelyn and Sir Richard Brown (d.12 February 1682/3), 246 leaves, in 19th-century half morocco marbled boards.

Later in the possession of William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector, and with his index (ff. 1r-4r). Upcott sale (22 June 1846), lot 27.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 15000 through 16999 (Add. MS 15858 f. 241r-v)

*EvJ 60

Autograph

Autograph inventory of pictures, furniture, etc. at Wotton, 1702, iii + 9 large folio leaves, in calf.

1702

Volume CCXXXVI of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, MS 53.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78403)

*EvJ 61

Autograph

Autograph ledger, recording accounts, abstracts of leases, etc. relating to Sayes Court, Deptford, 25 large folio leaves, in contemporary vellum.

1682-1704

Volume CCCCLI of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 62.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78618)

*EvJ 62

Autograph

Autograph ledger, recording Evelyn's personal accounts from January 1673 to December 1681, i + 22 quarto leaves.

1673-81

Volume CCXXXIX of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, MS 64.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78406)

*EvJ 63

Autograph

Inventory of Pictures and other=Houshold-stuff Left at Says-Court 1696 and a 27-page list of books, partly autograph, partly in another hand, on 66 octavo pages in all, badly damaged.

c.1696-1701

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 579.

Untraced, miscellaneous (Evelyn Collection)

*EvJ 64

Autograph

Autograph list of papers concerning Sir Richard Browne's estate.

1679

Formerly part of Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 579.

Untraced, miscellaneous (Evelyn Collection)

*EvJ 65

Autograph

A small autograph pocket notebook (c.11.5 x 6 cm.), headed A Particular of My Estate in Svrrey & mid Svssex. 1703, 88 pages (including blanks), in panelled calf.

Containing particulars of Evelyn's estates in Surrey, Sussex and Kent, Things left in my Closet in Dover-streete. May 1703, Abstract of my last Acc[om]pt. as Tress[ure]r of Gr[eenwich]: Hospital and other personal accounts and memoranda.

1681-1704

Sotheby's, 5 May 1919 (Alfred Morrison sale), lot 2823, to Maggs. John Evelyn Collection of Carelton R. Richmond.

Facsimile examples of this MS in Maggs's sale catalogue No. 449 (1924), item 173, plate XL, and in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 4 March 1937 (Moss sale), lot 686.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 992.2)

*EvJ 65.5

Autograph

Autograph instructions for housekeeping, copied down by Evelyn from his wife's dictation for the use of Margaret Godolphin, on three folio pages.

c.1676

Christie's, South Kensington, 8 June 2004, lot 147, with a facsimile in the sale catalogue.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Evelyn Instructions MS])

The Dutch War

Evelyn's history of the Dutch War was begun at the instigation of Charles II in 1670 but remained unfinished and unpublished: see Keynes, pp. 202-4. See also related letters in Bray, II, part i, pp. 87-100.

*EvJ 66

Autograph

Autograph drawing and caption, headed A Scheme of the Posture of the Dutch Fleete and action at Shere-nesse and Chatham, 10^th, 11^th, and 12^th of June, 1667.

This MS recorded in Wheatley (1893), p. 88; engraving by Sidney Hall from this MS reproduced in Pepys's Diary, ed. Mynors Bright (1825), IV, facing p. 363.

A folio composite volume of naval papers collected by Samuel Pepys, 290 leaves.

Inscribed by him Mixt papers put up in my parchment covers in and about the time of the first Dutch war (1665, 66, 67, 680, design'd for the most part for a collection, as I remember, towards the history thereof.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. A. 195 f. 78r)

*EvJ 67

Autograph

Autograph accounts book, including (f. 44r) A Catalogue of such Papers & Loose Notes as any may Concerne the Affaire of this first dutch Warr, as ty'd vp & Numberd in the Packetts & Bundles Marked D:E and (f. 47r) the Accompt of the Charg &c: of the Quarters, Cares, & sallaries of Sick & Wounded Sea-men: prisoners at warr, & officers: relating to the 2^d. Dutch-Warr begun: 18: Mar: 1671/2 to 1: Jan: 1675/6, 114 folio leaves (the majority blank), in contemporary vellum.

c.1676

Volume CCXXXIII of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, MS 42.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78400)

*EvJ 68

Autograph

Autograph notes and drafts.

Autograph notes and drafts for the period 1664-7, for Evelyn's Third Booke on the Dutch War, headed Progresse of y^e Dutch-War, ff. ii + 66 quarto leaves.

[before 1674]

Volume CCXXXIV of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, MS 134.

This MS recorded in Keynes, p. 202.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78401)

*EvJ 69

Autograph

Copy of An Impartial Narrative of The Victory obtained by the States General of the United Provinces over the Potent fleet of the King of England in a fight during four days, beginning June 11^th 1666, in a professional hand, with Evelyn's autograph note So 'tis called by N. Wilson, y^e Author of the Dutch Book of Naval Architecture…, on eleven folio pages, endorsed M^r Oldenburgs[?], being part of Evelyn's collections on the Dutch War.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 300.

Miscellaneous papers relating to public affairs, 79 + vi leaves.

Volume CCXXVI of the Evelyn Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78393 ff. 21r-6v)

*EvJ 70 c.1667

Autograph

Autograph draft report on possible sources of fuel along the Thames during the Durch was, incomplete, the first page only.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 517.

Miscellaneous papers relating to public affairs, 79 + vi leaves.

Volume CCXXVI of the Evelyn Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78393 ff. 18r-20r)

*EvJ 71 c.1673

Autograph

Collections, partly autograph, partly in other hands, including a Catalogue of Books & papers in order to y^e Hist: of the Dutch warr, brought w^th me vp to Lond: 16 ffeb: 1672/3, on 31 pages, chiefly folio

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 545.

Miscellaneous papers relating to public affairs, 79 + vi leaves.

Volume CCXXVI of the Evelyn Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78393 ff. 27r-43r)

*EvJ 72

Autograph

Autograph drawing and caption, endorsed A Scheme of the Action at Chatham when the dutch burnt our Shipps: as it was taken by me on the place: 1667, signed and dated 29 June 1667, on two quarto leaves.

1667

Once enclosed with a letter of 6 December 1681 to Samuel Pepys. Mentioned in Evelyn's list of books and MSS lent to Pepys in 1681 (EvJ 34).

This MS discussed in E.V. Unger and W.A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), III, 1209, with a facsimile on the facing page, Plate LVI.

University of Texas at Austin (Pforzheimer MS 35B)

*EvJ 73

Autograph

Autograph notes on seven folio leaves.

Autograph notes on seven folio leaves, headed Praemissis Praemittendis. The Chiefe Heads or Titles, which I propose to my Selfe, in the Contexture of the History of the Late Warr w^th Holland, &c, humbly submitted to his Ma^ties: Animadversions, enclosed in a letter of 28 January 1670/1 to Sir Joseph Williamson (1633-1701).

National Archives, Kew (SP 29/287/1331)

Elysium Britannicum

Intended to be Evelyn's magnum opus on horticulture, this work remained unfinished: see Keynes, p. 236. Edited by John E. Ingram, as Elysium Britannicum, or the Royal Gardens (University of Pennsylvania, 2001).

*EvJ 73.5 Late 17th century

Autograph

A folio volume of largely autograph notes by Evelyn intended for incorporation in the Elysium Britannicum, some perhaps for a new edition of the Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees, and also some for Evelyn's translation of De La Quintinye's Compleat Gard'ner (1693). 135 leaves.

A folio volume of notes and papers by Evelyn, 136 leaves.

Volume CLXXVII of the Evelyn Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78344 The MS as a whole)

*EvJ 74

Autograph

Autograph collections and notes, together with a printed prospectus.

The prospectus printed in Bray, II, part i, pp. 107-9.

Composite volume of papers by and associated with Evelyn collected by William Upcott.

This volume lot 586 in the Upcott sale on 24 June 1846.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 15000 through 16999 (Add. MS 15950 ff. 142r-74r)

*EvJ 75

Autograph

A folio composite volume of notes and collections for the Elysium Britannicum, largely autograph, 163 leaves, imperfect.

c.1660s-80s

Volume CLXXVI of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 38.

This MS recorded in Wheatley (1893), p. 87.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78343)

*EvJ 76

Autograph

A largely autograph folio volume of collections and drafts for the Elysium Britannicum, with some additions by others, c.342 pages, including pasted-in and loose slips and a printed prospectus.

Begun c.1650

Volume CLXXV of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 45.

Edited from this MS in Ingram. Extracts edited as John Evelyn's Manuscript on Bees from Elysium Britannicum, ed. D.A. Smith (Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, 1966), with facsimile examples. Discussed in Bee World, 46 (1965), 117-31. Recorded in Wheatley (1893), p. 87; in Hiscock (1955), p. 243 (with a facsimile example after p. 32), and in Keynes, p. 236. Facsimile examples in Mark Laird, Sayes Court Revisited, in John Evelyn and his Milieu, ed. Frances Harris and Michael Hunter (London, 2003), pp. 115-44.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78342)

*EvJ 77

Autograph

Autograph note marked for addition to page 6 of Elysium Britannicum, on a single quarto leaf.

1667

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 532.

Untraced, miscellaneous (Evelyn Collection)

*EvJ 78

Autograph

Autograph note, headed A Catalogue for Tryals, on both sides of a quarto leaf.

Partly laid-down on the flyleaf of a printed exemplum of Volume I of Memoirs illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, ed. William Bray (2nd edition, London, 1819), with a note in William Upcott's hand, dated 22 May 1840, stating that that the leaf had belonged to Elysium Britannicum.

Late 17th century

Dawson's sale catalogue No. 208 (1960s), item 80.

This MS recorded in Keynes, p. 236.

Clark Library, Los Angeles (*fPR3433 E5Z7 1819 v. 1 C. 2)

*EvJ 79

Autograph

Autograph and annotated architectural drawings (including winding stairs, stair balusters, a shop and sections of a dome), on four leaves.

Mounted in an album by William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector, with his note stating that these drawings were done for Elysium Britannicum, together with material relating to the first edition of Evelyn's Memoirs (1818).

Mid-17th century?

Sotheby's, 30 June 1964, lot 464, to A.G. Thomas.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Evelyn's drawings (1)])

Epitaphs and Funeral Inscriptions

*EvJ 80

Autograph

Draft of a prose epitaph for the proposed monument of Evelyn's father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne (d.12 February 1682/3) at Deptford Church, with a drawing of it and a list of Browne's children.

A folio composite volume of correspondence of John Evelyn and Sir Richard Brown (d.12 February 1682/3), 246 leaves, in 19th-century half morocco marbled boards.

Later in the possession of William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector, and with his index (ff. 1r-4r). Upcott sale (22 June 1846), lot 27.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 15000 through 16999 (Add. MS 15858 ff. 244r-6r)

*EvJ 81

Autograph

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 324.

A collection of verse and other literary material, compiled and partly written or copied by Evelyn, 55 leaves.

Volume CXCII of the Evelyn Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78359 f. 42r)

*EvJ 82

Autograph

A collection of verse and other literary material, compiled and partly written or copied by Evelyn, 55 leaves.

Volume CXCII of the Evelyn Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78359 f. 34r)

*EvJ 83 c.1660s

Autograph

Autograph Latin inscription, endorsed Inscription L: Clarendon, on a single octavo leaf.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 470.

A collection of verse and other literary material, compiled and partly written or copied by Evelyn, 55 leaves.

Volume CXCII of the Evelyn Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78359 f. 21r)

*EvJ 84 1683

Autograph

Autograph design for a funeral inscription for Dr John Beale (1603-83), on a single octavo leaf

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 471.

A collection of verse and other literary material, compiled and partly written or copied by Evelyn, 55 leaves.

Volume CXCII of the Evelyn Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78359 f. 35r)

EvJ 85

Autograph funeral inscription to Lord de Wit, on a single quarto leaf.

1683

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 472.

Untraced, miscellaneous (Evelyn Collection)

An Exact Account of the Making of Marbled Paper

*EvJ 86 1661/2

Autograph

Autograph, headed Marble Paper, by M^r Evelyn, signed and dated by him In January 1661, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed S^r: Rob: Murrey Præs: [i.e. Sir Robert Moray (1608/9?-73), army officer and politician, a founder member of the Royal Society], sent to the Royal Society and inscribed Read Jan: 8. 61[/2] / Ent^d R B. 1. 137.

A large folio composite volume of tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 68 items, unfoliated, all mounted on guards, in modern boards with ties.

Royal Society, London (Classified Papers III (1) item 4)

EvJ 87

Copy, inscribed Brought in by M^r Evelyn.

This MS recorded in Wheatley (1893), p. 87, and in Keynes, pp. 260-1.

A folio register book of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society in 1661-2, largely in two professional hands, with (pp. 217-21) a later Table of contents subscribed R. Waller: 1687, 221 pages (plus blanks), in old reversed calf (rebacked).

1661-87

Royal Society, London (Register Book 1 pp. 137-40)

EvJ 88

Copy of EvJ 87, as by M^r Evelin.

A folio duplicate of Register Books 1 and 2 (in part) of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society in 1660-62, in a single professional hand, 343 pages plus a six-page Catalogue of contents at the beginning and an eleven-page index at the end, in modern calf.

Early-mid-18th century

Royal Society, London (Register Book Copy 1 pp. 141-4)

EvJ 88.5

Copy of EvJ 87, subscribed Brought in by M^r. Evelyn.

A folio copy of Register Books 1 and 2 (incomplete) of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society in 1661-63, in a single professional hand, 536 pages, with a two-page table of contents at the beginning, in old reversed calf.

Late 17th-early 18th century

Inscribed inside the front cover as having been given by G. S. Heales of Doctors' Commons to Sir Joseph Banks, Bt (1743-1820), naturalist, President of the Royal Society, on 31 May 1814.

Royal Society, London (MS 776 pp. 127-30)

EvJ 89

Copy.

This MS recorded in Wheatley (1893), p. 87, and in Keynes, pp. 260-1.

A folio transcript of the Royal Society Register Book, 520 leaves.

After 1661

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 243 ff. 96r-8r)

EvJ 90

Copy in the hand of Michael Weeks.

Transcript of part of the Royal Society Register book in the hand of Michael Weeks, Clerk of the Royal Society.

Among the papers of Sir Joseph Williamson (1633-1701).

National Archives, Kew (SP 9/7/27 pp. 212-17)

An exact Relation of the Pico Tenariff, taken from M^r: Clappham, who had long resided in that Iland

*EvJ 91

Autograph

Autograph draft, with deletions, on all four pages of two folio leaves, incomplete, dated 11: March: 1660[/1], sent to the Royal Society, inscribed Read Mar: 13: [16]60[/1]. 1660/1.

A large folio composite volume of tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 61 items, unfoliated, all mounted on guards, in modern boards with ties.

Royal Society, London (Classified Papers VII (1) item 1)

EvJ 92 c.1661

Copy, in a neat cursive hand, as by M^r Evelyn, incomplete, on nine pages of five folio leaves.

A large folio composite volume of tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 61 items, unfoliated, all mounted on guards, in modern boards with ties.

Royal Society, London (Classified Papers VII (1) item 5)

EvJ 93

Copy, as by M^r: Evelyn and Enter'd June y^e 29 1661. From M^r Evelin & M^r. Croone.

1661-87

Royal Society, London (Register Book 1 pp. 36-48)

EvJ 94

Copy of EvJ 93, as By M^r. Evelyn, subscribed Entred June the 29^th. 1661 From M^r Evelin and M^r. Croon.

Early-mid-18th century

Royal Society, London (Register Book Copy 1 pp. 43-56)

*EvJ 94.5

Autograph

A large drawing of Tenerife in an unidentified hand and Evelyn's copy of it, in ink and coloured wash, with his initialled inscription Orotava in Tenerif Insula Canar:, and with an unrelated engraving.

c.1660s

Volume CCLX of the Evelyn Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78427)

EvJ 94.8

Copy of EvJ 93, as By M^r Evelyn.

Late 17th-early 18th century

Inscribed inside the front cover as having been given by G. S. Heales of Doctors' Commons to Sir Joseph Banks, Bt (1743-1820), naturalist, President of the Royal Society, on 31 May 1814.

Royal Society, London (MS 776 pp. 37-48)

EvJ 95

Copy, in the hand of Michael Weeks.

Transcript of part of the Royal Society Register Book 1, in the hand of Michael Weeks, Clerk of the Royal Society.

Among the papers of Sir Joseph Williamson (1633-1701).

National Archives, Kew (SP 9/7/11 pp. 65-86)

Fishery (I)

*EvJ 96

Autograph

Autograph paper, headed A succinct but full deduction of his Majesties indubitable Title to the Dominion and Sovereignty of the British Seas, and consequently the Fishery and Duties appendant thereunto, incomplete, on fourteen folio pages, preceded by a memorandum about the work's suppression by the King just as it was carrying to the presse, sent by Evelyn to Samuel Pepys, January 1673/4. 1674.

This paper partly incorporated in Evelyn's Navigation and Commerce (London, 1674). Recorded in HMC, 70, Pepys (1911), p. 267. Listed as item 7 (A discourse concerning the Fishery) in Evelyn's note of books and MSS lent to Pepys in 1681 (EvJ 34).

Correspondence by Evelyn addressed to Samuel Pepys.

January 1673/4

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library (MS 2504 item 673)

Fishery (II)

*EvJ 97

Autograph

Autograph paper, headed A letter written to a Friend concerning the Interest of his Majestye and the nation in the Fishery and Duties appendant to it..., on 21 folio pages, sent to Samuel Pepys and docketed by him on the title-page Fishery. M^r Evelyn's second paper concerning the Fishery, 1673.

Recorded in HMC, 70, Pepys (911), p. 267. Listed as item 8 (A discourse concerning y^e duty of the Flag) in Evelyn's note of books and MSS lent to Pepys in 1681 (EvJ 34).

Correspondence by Evelyn addressed to Samuel Pepys.

January 1673/4

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library (MS 2504 item 649)

For Zoöphytall, or Animal Engraftings, or Inoculations, this accoumpt I receiv'd from a Friend of mine in y^e Country

*EvJ 98

Autograph

Autograph note, on one side of a single quarto leaf, subscribed by Evelyn Given in [to the Royal Society] by M^r: Evelyn 10: Sep^r: 1662. 1662.

A large folio composite volume of tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 74 items, unfoliated, all mounted on guards, in modern boards with ties.

Royal Society, London (Classified Papers XV item 3)

EvJ 98.5 c.1662

Copy, in a cursive scribal hand, as brought in by M^r Evelyn 10. Sept. 1662, on an oblong octavo-size slip of papers.

A large folio composite volume of tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 74 items, unfoliated, all mounted on guards, in modern boards with ties.

Royal Society, London (Classified Papers XV item 3a)

EvJ 99

Copy, as Given in by M^r. Evelyn. 10 Sept. 1662.

A folio register book of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society in 1662-63, largely (but for pp. [8-12]) in one professional hand, with (p. [7]) a later Table of contents subscribed R. Waller 1687, 232 pages (plus blanks) plus a twelve-page index at the end in other hands, in old reversed calf.

1662-87

Royal Society, London (Register Book 2 p. 34)

EvJ 100

Copy of EvJ 99, subscribed Given in by M^r. Evelyn 10^th. Sept. 1662.

Early-mid-18th century

Royal Society, London (Register Book Copy 1 ff. 251-2)

EvJ 100.5

Copy of EvJ 99, as An Account received by M^r: Evelyn from a friend of his.

Late 17th-early 18th century

Inscribed inside the front cover as having been given by G. S. Heales of Doctors' Commons to Sir Joseph Banks, Bt (1743-1820), naturalist, President of the Royal Society, on 31 May 1814.

Royal Society, London (MS 776 p. 229)

Grammar

*EvJ 101

Autograph

Autograph Latin notes, headed Brevissimae Graecae Grammatices Institutiones, on seven quarto leaves.

Composite volume of papers by and associated with Evelyn collected by William Upcott.

This volume lot 586 in the Upcott sale on 24 June 1846.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 15000 through 16999 (Add. MS 15950 ff. 81r-7v)

*EvJ 102

Autograph

Autograph draft of A Compendium of the Pronunciation of the ffrench toung, on six quarto leaves. Notes on French vocabulary also occur on ff. 31, 59, 69 among historical notes chiefly written by John Evelyn Jr.

Composite volume of papers by and associated with Evelyn collected by William Upcott.

This volume lot 586 in the Upcott sale on 24 June 1846.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 15000 through 16999 (Add. MS 15950 ff. 88r-93v.)

*EvJ 103

Autograph

Autograph drafts of The English Grammer and The Latine Grammar, on 12 quarto leaves.

Composite volume of papers by and associated with Evelyn collected by William Upcott.

This volume lot 586 in the Upcott sale on 24 June 1846.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 15000 through 16999 (Add. MS 15950 ff. 94r-105r)

*EvJ 104

Autograph

A ggrammatical vademecum or manual reference book compiled from various authors in the hand of Richard Hoare, with Evelyn's autograph note at the beginning stating that This Compendium ... is in many places false written & full of Errore; imperfect, 218 octavo pages (plus blanks), in contemporary morocco gilt.

c.1649-51

Volume CLX of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 91.

This MS recorded in Keynes, p. 22.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78327)

*EvJ 105

Autograph

Autograph draft, headed Gramatica. A General or praeliminary Grammar, on twenty quarto pages; imperfect.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 536.

A composite volume of miscellaneous papers collected by Evelyn, 432 leaves in all.

Volume CLXXXIV of the Evelyn Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78351 ff. 1r-32r)

*EvJ 106 1643

Autograph

Autograph compendium of French pronunciation, headed Compendium pronuntiaos Gallicae, on four quarto leaves.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 537

A composite volume of miscellaneous papers collected by Evelyn, 432 leaves in all.

Volume CLXXXIV of the Evelyn Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78351 ff. 68r-71r)

History

*EvJ 107

Autograph

Autograph notes on 16th- and 17th-century European history, ii + 31 leaves.

c.1670s-80s

Volume CCLXXX of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 57.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78447)

*EvJ 108

Autograph

Autograph notes on headings for a historical discourse on two folio leaves.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 492.

Untraced, miscellaneous (Evelyn Collection)

*EvJ 109

Autograph

Autograph historical notes on a single folio leaf.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 559.

Untraced, miscellaneous (Evelyn Collection)

*EvJ 110

Autograph

Autograph historical notes on the Leagues of the Grisons on a single quarto leaf.

c.May 1646?

Sotheby's, 5 May 1919 (Alfred Morrison sale), lot 2821, to Edwards.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osb MSS File 5095)

The Historie of Staves

*EvJ 111 c.late 1660s

Autograph

Autograph draft of the beginning, partly in Latin.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MSS 546 and 547.

A folio volume of notes and papers by Evelyn, 136 leaves.

Volume CLXXVII of the Evelyn Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78344 ff. 129r-35r)

EvJ 112

Autograph of a Latin version (...De Vaculis), on three folio pages, unfinished.

Late 17th century

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 547.

This MS recorded in Bray, UU, part i, p. 103.

Untraced, miscellaneous (Evelyn Collection)

History of the Dutch War

See EvJ 66-73.

[History of Trades]

See EvJ 29.

Instructions Oeconomique

*EvJ 113

Autograph

Illuminated copy in the calligraphic hand of Richard Hoare, with Evelyn's autograph inscription and motto, ii + 84 quarto leaves, damaged by damp, in contemporary morocco gilt.

1648-9

Volume CCLXIII of the Evelyn Papers. Later bookplate of Theodore H. Broadhead. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 143.

This MS recorded in Hiscock (1951), pp. 6-7, and in Hiscock (1955), p. 244.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78430)

Kalendarium Hortense

First published in London, 1664.

EvJ 113.5

Extracts.

A MS of extracts, on 38 folio leaves.

Late 17th century

National Archives, Kew (SP 29/109/91 unnumbered [i])

The Legend of the Pearle

See EvJ 211.

The Life of Mrs. Godolphin

A prose account, including verses. First published in London, 1847, ed. Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford. Edited by Harriet Sampson (London, New York and Toronto, 1939). Keynes, pp. 244-50.

*EvJ 114

Autograph

Autograph fair copy, with revisions, v + 85 quarto pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco elaborately gilt, J E stamped on each side, with silver clasps.

With a title-page, The Life of Mr^is: Godolphin, Writen at the Request of my Lady Sylvius. By a Friend, a dedicatory epistle to Lord Godolphin, and the text of a letter to Evelyn dated from London 22 September 1678.

c.1702

Harcourt Library. Sotheby's, 1869 (Mr Dillon's collection), lot 366. Booklabels of Howard A. Levis and of the John Evelyn Collection of Carelton R. Richmond.

Edited from this MS in Sampson (1939). Recorded in Keynes, with facsimile examples.

Facsimile of the first page in The Houghton Library 1942-67: A Selection of Books and Manuscripts in Harvard Collections (Cambridge, Mass., 1967), p. 54.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 992)

EvJ 115

Copy, without preliminaries, in the neat italic hand of an amanuensis, headed The Life of M^rs. Godolphin Written at the request of my Lady Sylvius} by a Friend, on 90 quarto leaves (including 32 blanks), in contemporary black morocco gilt.

c.1686

Inserted letter by James P. Muirhead, to [Samuel Wilberforce], Bishop of Oxford, from Henley Court, Telsworth, Oxfordshire, 21 June 1869. Owned before 1956 by Dr Octavia Wilberforce. Sotheby's, 8 May 1956, lot 42, to Maggs. Booklabel of the John Evelyn Collection of Carelton R. Richmond and booklabel of Martha Venables Vernon.

Edited from this MS in Wilberforce (1847). Discussed in Sampson (1939), pp. 116-23 (when the MS was lost and presumed autograph), and in Keynes, p. 250.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 992.1)

London Revived Consideration for its rebuilding in 1666

EvJ 116

Copy of Evelyn's revised version (as sent to Henry Oldenburg, Secretary of the Royal Society, 22 December 1666), in a rounded italic hand, subscribed JEvelyn, on two pairs of conjugate folio leaves. Early 18th century.

Edited from this MS in Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 3rd Ser. 27 (1919-20), 463-70. Reprinted in E.S. de Beer's edition (Oxford, 1938) [see Keynes, p. 255].

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous tracts and civic papers relating to London, in several hands, 311 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half-vellum marbled boards.

Formerly Guildhall Library MS 94.

London Metropolitan Archives (CLC/297/MS 00094 ff. 50r-3v)

Maps, Drawings and Coats of Arms

*EvJ 117

Autograph

MS map of Deptford, 1623, with Evelyn's autograph annotations and his drawing of Sayes Court, with various other maps and surveys relating to Deptford, on paper and vellum.

Volume CCCCLXII of the Evelyn Papers. Including Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MSS 153, 281.

An engraving based on this map reproduced in Bray, I, after p. 314.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78629)

*EvJ 118

Autograph

Tracing pattern of a Sussex coat of arms with an autograph note, on a single leaf.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 421.

Untraced, miscellaneous (Evelyn Collection)

*EvJ 119

Autograph

Autograph note on a coloured print of a coat of arms, on a single leaf.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 426.

Untraced, miscellaneous (Evelyn Collection)

*EvJ 120

Autograph

Drawing of an Egyptian stone, with an autograph note, on two folio leaves.

1646

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 544.

Untraced, miscellaneous (Evelyn Collection)

*EvJ 121

Autograph

Engraving of George Evelyn's estate of Wotton in Surrey with John Evelyn's autograph inscription.

1653

Formerly a Folder of Drawings in Christ Church, Oxford.

Reproduced in Bray, II, part i, after p. 120.

Untraced, miscellaneous (Evelyn Collection)

EvJ 122

Drawings of inscriptions on panes of glass at Wotton House, on a single leaf.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 1178)

*EvJ 123

Autograph

Autograph ink and wash sketch on drawing paper, 18 x 29½ inches, with autograph caption: This designe of a Garden I made for the Duke of Norfolk [in Surry deleted] at his house in Albury in Surrey since sold to M^r solicitor Finch, at p. [554] of a printed exemplum of Miscellaneous Writings (1825).

[1667]

Once owned by William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector, and later by John Dillon, and by Alfred Morrison (1821-97), manuscript and art collector.

This MS discussed in E.V. Unger and W. A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), III, 1209.

University of Texas at Austin (Pforzheimer MS 35C)

*EvJ 124

Autograph

Autograph description of the Clepsamidium Nauticum, with a diagram, on a single folio leaf, endorsed by Samuel Pepys M^r Evelyn's Description of a new Sea-Hour-Glasse.

Late 17th century?

Later owned by J. Eliot Hodgkin, FSA (1829-1912), of Richmond, Surrey, engineer and book collector. Sotheby's, 23 April 1914 (Hodgkin sale), lot 244, to Francis Edwards.

Recorded in HMC, 39, 15th report, Appendix II (1897), p. 184.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Evelyn's Sea-Hour-Glasse MS])

*EvJ 125

Autograph

Autograph drawing of designs for the armorial ensigns and ciphers of the Royal Society, headed Armes & Mottos proposd for y^e R. Society 1660.

c.1660

Formerly owned by William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector.

Facsimile of this MS in Charles John Smith, Historical and Literary Curiosities (London, 1847), No. 57.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Evelyn's drawings (2)])

Memoires for My Grand-Son

*EvJ 126

Autograph

Autograph fair copy, iii + 44 sextodecimo leaves, in contemporary morocco gilt.

c.1704-6

Volume CCCXLVIII of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 132.

Edited from this MS by Geoffrey Keynes (London, 1926). Recorded in Keynes (1968), pp. 20, 28, 251-4.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78515)

Miscellaneous Notes, Drafts and Extracts

*EvJ 127

Autograph

Autograph notes from John Willis, The arte of Stenographie, or Shortwriting (London, 1628) on ten quarto leaves.

Composite volume of papers by and associated with Evelyn collected by William Upcott.

This volume lot 586 in the Upcott sale on 24 June 1846.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 15000 through 16999 (Add. MS 15950 ff. 112r-21r)

EvJ 128

Portion of a copy of an essay in Latin in praise of Pliny and Juvenal, imperfect, on three quarto leaves.

Composite volume of papers by and associated with Evelyn collected by William Upcott.

This volume lot 586 in the Upcott sale on 24 June 1846.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 15000 through 16999 (Add. MS 15950 ff. 122r-4r)

*EvJ 129

Autograph

Autograph fragment of a treatise on metaphysics, on a single folio leaf.

Composite volume of papers by and associated with Evelyn collected by William Upcott.

This volume lot 586 in the Upcott sale on 24 June 1846.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 15000 through 16999 (Add. MS 15950 f. 125r)

*EvJ 130

Autograph

Autograph notes by John Evelyn the younger on Sir Edward Coke's Institutes of the Laws of England, 167 folio pages, in remains of contemporary vellum.

c.1670s-80s

Volume CCLXXVIII of the Evelyn Papers. Sotheby's, 19 June 1893 (Sir Thomas Phillipps sale), lot 226. Afterwards Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 43.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78445)

*EvJ 131

Autograph

Autograph title-page and two lines of preface for an essay on The Dignity of Mankind, in A Problematical Exercitation or Essay...Writen at the Request of Samuel Pepys Esq^r:...1676, on the first two leaves of a quarto volume of 219 leaves later filled with notes on land documents by Sir John Evelyn, Bt, in contemporary vellum.

1676[-early 18th century]

Volume CLXXX of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 137.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78347)

*EvJ 132

Autograph

Autograph note of a debate from the Athenian Mercury, on a single quarto leaf, c.18 April 1693.

1693

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 419.

Untraced, miscellaneous (Evelyn Collection)

*EvJ 133

Autograph

Autograph quotation in Latin from Grotius, on a single octavo leaf.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 429.

Untraced, miscellaneous (Evelyn Collection)

*EvJ 134

Autograph

An unbound collection of medicinal and culinary receipts, in several family hands including Evelyn's, on different sized papers, in a portfolio.

Late 17th century

Volume CLXXI of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MSS 297 and 531.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78338)

*EvJ 135

Autograph

Formerly part of Christ Church, Oxford, MS 533.

Two autograph papers by Evelyn, ii + 76 leaves.

Volume CLXXXXIII of the Evelyn Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78350 ff. 74r-6r)

*EvJ 135.5

Autograph

Autograph notes and drafts, including a draft of the dedicatory epistle for Sylva, verses on the visit of Tsar Peter the Great (1698), three pages of Bibliotheca & MSS and notes relating to Greek and Latin vocabulary, on 31 leaves and slips of paper.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 533.

A collection of verse and other literary material, compiled and partly written or copied by Evelyn, 55 leaves.

Volume CXCII of the Evelyn Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78359 f. 41r et passim)

*EvJ 136

Autograph

Autograph notes concerning comedy and other dramatic writings, in quarto and folio leaves.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 534.

A collection of verse and other literary material, compiled and partly written or copied by Evelyn, 55 leaves.

Volume CXCII of the Evelyn Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78359 ff. 5-17r passim)

*EvJ 137

Autograph

Autograph drafts and notes, including biographical information about himself and others and notes concerning the history of the Royal Society, also including a list of queries in the hand of Anthony Wood, on a single folio leaf and various scraps of paper.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 543.

Untraced, miscellaneous (Evelyn Collection)

*EvJ 138 1671

Autograph

Autograph notes on colonial plantations in America and the West Indies, 3 June 1671, on a single quarto leaf.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 548.

Miscellaneous papers relating to public affairs, 79 + vi leaves.

Volume CCXXVI of the Evelyn Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78393 f. 52r)

*EvJ 139 1657

Autograph

Autograph notes on travel in Italy, on a single folio leaf, 4 October 1657.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 549.

A composite volume of miscellaneous papers collected by Evelyn, 432 leaves in all.

Volume CLXXXIV of the Evelyn Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78351 f. 144r)

EvJ 140 Mid-18th century

Notes and lists, including some Latin verse, on about fifteen leaves and scraps of paper.

Probably corresponding to Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 550, but not in Evelyn's hand.

An unbound collection of verse manuscripts, in English and Latin, in various hands and paper sizes, collected by the Evelyn family, 214 leaves.

Early 18th century

Volume CCCLIV of the Evelyn Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78521 ff. 154r-68r)

*EvJ 141

Autograph

Partly autograph notes and collections on religious subjects, including the beginning of an unfinished draft treatise headed Aedes sapientia, et Instaurationis Imaginis dei. Representing A Course of Vniversal knowledg in order, and Autograph notes on the Eucharist, i + 73 leaves.

Volume CCI of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MSS 55/556.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS. 78368)

*EvJ 142

Autograph

Autograph translation by Evelyn of a letter from Samuel de Sorbière to Thomas Hobbes, from Paris 1 February 1658, being the Lxxix of his discourses printed at Paris 1660, made by Evelyn for the Royal Society, on two folio leaves, at p. 246 of a printed exemplum of Miscellaneous Writings (1825).

c.1661

Once owned by William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector, and later by John Dillon, and by Alfred Morrison (1821-97), manuscript and art collector.

This MS described and edited in full in E.V. Unger and W.A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), III, 1205-8.

University of Texas at Austin (Pforzheimer MS 35A)

*EvJ 143

Autograph

Autograph quotation from Guillaume Joseph Grelot, Relation d'un voyage de Constantinople (Paris, 1680), with initialled autograph note, on a single quarto page; endorsed November, 1682.

1682

Sotheby's, 4 July 1917, lot 466, to Tregaskis. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 445 (1923), item 123.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Evelyn's Grelot MS])

*EvJ 144

Autograph

Autograph quotation of ten lines from Isaac Vossius, De magnitudine Carthaginis, concerning the golden apples of the garden of Hesperides, on a small slip of paper.

Sotheby's, 29 October 1975, lot 26, to Winifred Myers.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Evelyn's Vossius MS])

Naval Papers

See EvJ 33, EvJ 66-73, EvJ 96-7, and EvJ 124.

OEconomics To a newly Married Friend

First published in Sampson (1939), Appendix.

*EvJ 145

Autograph

Autograph draft, addressed to Margaret Blagge, imperfect, 78 quarto leaves, paginated 1-40, 51-74 (lacking pp. 41-50), in marbled paper and a later paper wrapper.

1676

Volume CCXIX of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 106.

This MS recorded in Hiscock (1955), p. 244, and in Keynes, p. 247.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78386)

*EvJ 146

Autograph

Fragment of an autograph draft on two folio leaves.

Composite volume of papers by and associated with Evelyn collected by William Upcott.

This volume lot 586 in the Upcott sale on 24 June 1846.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 15000 through 16999 (Add. MS 15950 ff. 106r-7v)

*EvJ 147

Autograph

Fragment of an autograph draft on three quarto leaves apparently cut from EvJ 145.

This MS printed in Sampson, Appendix B1, pp. 218-23; recorded in Hiscock (1951), p. 167, and in Hiscock (1955), p. 244.

Composite volume of papers by and associated with Evelyn collected by William Upcott.

This volume lot 586 in the Upcott sale on 24 June 1846.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 15000 through 16999 (Add. MS 15950 ff. 108r-10v)

*EvJ 148

Autograph

Autograph draft, on three large folio leaves, endorsed in the hand of Margaret Godolphin Mrs. Evelin's directions concerning house keeping for me.

Mid-late 17th century?

Later owned by Alfred Morrison (1821-97), manuscript and art collector. Sotheby's, 5 May 1919 (Morrison sale), lot 2821, to Francis Edwards.

Recorded in Sampson, p. 224.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Evelyn's Oeconomics MS])

EvJ 149

Copy, in the hand of Richard Hoare, headed Aprill 13th: 1675. A copie of M^rs Evelyn's instructions to M^rs. Blague for setting up & keeping house, upon her marriage with my L^d. Godolphin, on two folio leaves, enclosed in an autograph letter signed by Evelyn, to Pepys, 3 October 1685.

1675-85

This MS edited in Sampson (1939), Appendix B2, pp. 223-36. Discussed in E.V. Unger and W.A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), III, 1215-16. Recorded (as at the Houghton Library, Harvard) in Keynes, p. 247.

University of Texas at Austin (Pforzheimer MS 35H)

Of Manuscripts

*EvJ 150

Autograph

Autograph draft of an essay, unfinished, on thirteen quarto leaves.

Mid-late 17th century?

Edited from this MS in Bray (1818), II, Part i, pp. 33-48. Reported to be at Wotton House in Wheatley (1893), p. 85. Recorded in Keynes, p. 7. Listed as A Discourse of Manuscripts, Begun but Imperfect in one of Evelyn's lists in British Library, Add. MS 15950, f. 80r (EvJ 35).

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Evelyn's Manuscript MS])

Science and Natural History

Dramatic Works

The Originals. A Comedy

*EvJ 212 c.1660s

Autograph

Autograph fair copy of a fragment of an unfinished comedy The Originals, together with some autograph notes on drama, on five folio and quarto pages.

Once owned by William Upcott; this MS sold at the Upcott sale at Evans (i.e. Sotheby's) on 24 June 1846, lot 428. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 534.

A collection of verse and other literary material, compiled and partly written or copied by Evelyn, 55 leaves.

Volume CXCII of the Evelyn Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78359 ff. 1r-4r)

*EvJ 212.5

Autograph

Autograph notes relating to dramatic writings.

Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 542.

A collection of verse and other literary material, compiled and partly written or copied by Evelyn, 55 leaves.

Volume CXCII of the Evelyn Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78359 ff. 5r-17r passim)

Thersander. A Tragi-Comoedy

*EvJ 213

Autograph

Autograph fair copy, with revisions (pp. 1-93 and p. 130), together with an autograph draft of Act I, deleted (pp. 94-107), unfinished, 68 folio leaves, in contemporary vellum with leather ties.

Early 1660s

Volume CXCI of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 41.

This MS recorded, as Thirsander, in Keynes, p. 21.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78358)

*EvJ 214

Autograph

Autograph cancelled draft of part of Act I, scene ii, on a single quarto leaf, with an autograph drawing on the verso.

Composite volume of papers by and associated with Evelyn collected by William Upcott.

This volume lot 586 in the Upcott sale on 24 June 1846.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 15000 through 16999 (Add. MS 15950 f. 177r)

Diaries and Journals

Diary

First published in selections in Bray (1818). The text for the period from 4 October 1699 to 1706 first published as a serialisation in Abinger Monthly Record, I (1889), pp. 7-8, 20,32, 48, 64, 76. II (1890), pp. 15-16, 31-2, 44, 60, 79-80, 96, 116, 132, 148, 167-8, 184, 199-200. III (1891-3), pp. 15-16, 31-2, 44, 60, 76, 92, 107-8, 127-8, 147-8, 167-8, 191-2, 215-16, 235-6, 251-2, 271-2, 291-2, 311-12, 328, 343-4, 364, 393-6, 414-28, 439-58. The Diary first published in full (but for missing pages) in de Beer (1955).

*EvJ 215

Autograph

Autograph diary.

Evelyn's autograph diary covering the period from 1620 to 31 October 1697, headed Kalendarium, on c.732 folio pages (including a number of misplaced leaves between pp. 157 and 214 and blanks); imperfect, lacking various leaves (notably after p. 150, before p. 215 and after p. 718); the text up to p. 237 entered (transcribed from an original diary or notes) c.1660s, then resumed c.1680 and entries from c.1684 roughly contemporaneous; some later marginal notes; a four-page transcript of a damaged leaf (pp. 715-16, containing entries from 2 August to 13 September 1696) attached at rebinding in the early 19th century; also inserted after p. 414 a drawing of an altar given to Evelyn by Margaret Blagge (Mrs Godolphin), in 19th-century half-morocco.

1620-97

Vol. CLVII of the Evelyn Papers.

Edited principally from this MS in Bray and (as text K) in de Beer, with facsimile examples in the latter (II, after p. 210, and III, after pp. 214, 350, 574 and 628). Facsimiles of the drawing of an altar also in Sampson, after p. 22, and in Hiscock (1951), after p. 26. William Bray's transcript of extracts from this Diary, taken in 1814-15, is in a large folio volume of c.1000 pages in Add. MS 78577 (formerly Evelyn MS 159).

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78323)

*EvJ 216

Autograph

Autograph Diary.

Evelyn's autograph Diary in continuation of EvJ 215, for the period from 31 October 1697 to 3 February 1706, on four quarto pages, headed Extract out of my Diary: Paris [for 1651-3, written after 1677], followed by 26 gatherings numbered I to XXVII (181 chiefly quarto pages in all), with an autograph note: Join the following pages to [the rest] of my Diary. 1697. next October 31; some leaves misplaced, defective or missing, now in modern limp vellum.

1697-1706

Volume CLVII of the Evelyn Papers.

The first four pages printed in de Beer, III, Appendix A, pp. 632-6, and discussed I, 46-7. The main text edited from this MS in Abinger Monthly Record (1889-93), with a facsimile of the last page in Vol. III, before p. 449, and (as a continuation of K) in de Beer (1955), with facsimile examples in I, after p. 92, and V, after p. 402.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78324)

*EvJ 217

Autograph

Autograph revised version of parts of Evelyn's Diary.

Evelyn's autograph revised version of EvJ 215 for the period up to late 1644, on 76 pages of a 470-page folio volume lettered on the spine De Vita Propria Pars Prima, the last few lines entered c.1737 in the hand of Evelyn's grandson, Sir John Evelyn, Bt (1682-1763), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

c.1697 and later

Vol. CLVIII of the Evelyn Papers.

Edited from this MS (as text V) in de Beer (1955).

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78325)

EvJ 218

Copy of parts of Evelyn's Diary for the period from 1620 to Good Friday 1644 transcribed from EvJ 215 and EvJ 217, in a probably professional hand, made for Sir John Evelyn, Bt (1682-1763), the diarist's grandson, on 270 pages of a folio volume of c.348folio pages, in quarter-morocco, lettered on the spine John Evelyn's Memoirs, 1620-1644. Copy, 1737.

1737

Volume XLIX of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 50.

This MS discussed in de Beer, I, 47-8.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 76326)

EvJ 219

Transcript of the Extract out of my Diary Paris 1651 1 of June Trinity Sunday in an unidentified hand, on two conjugate folio leaves, erroneously identified by Hearne as an extract from Bishop Cosin's diary; given by Evelyn to Dr Smith after 1672.

This MS pub., with omissions, in Bishop Cosin's Correspondence, Surtees Society (1869-72), I, 282-5; recorded in Wheatley (where it is cited as MS Smith 22a), and in de Beer, III, 632.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous antiquarian papers, in prose and verse, in different hands and sizes, viii + 138 pages, in early 18th-century half-calf.

After 1672

Owned on 16 March 1710/11 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary, who records Smith's bequest of the volume to him.

Bodleian Library, Smith MSS (MS Smith 23 pp. 29-32)

EvJ 219.5

Extracts from Evelyn's Diary made by the editor William Bray (1736-1832), with some notes probably added by his assistant, James Bindley (1737-1818), 955 folio pages, in half-calf.

1814-15

Volume CCCCX of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 159.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78577)

EvJ 220

Transcript of the Extract out of my Diary. Paris 1651, headed MS Smith num: 13.

This MS discussed, with all of Baker's MSS, in the Appendix to Zachary Masters' Life of Baker (Cambridge, 1784). Recorded in Bishop Cosin's Correspondence (1869-72), I, 282-5, in Wheatley, and in de Beer, III, 632.

A folio volume of transcripts made by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary, 472 pages plus a tipped-in letter, in reversed calf.

MS Baker 36.

Late 17th-early 18th century

Cambridge University Library, shelfmarks M through end (Mm. 1. 47 pp. 329-32)

*EvJ 221

Autograph

Several allegedly autograph journal pages, possibly extracted from EvJ 215.

Recorded in 1946 as being in the manuscript collection of Count G.V. Orlov (1777-1826) in the State Historical Museum, Red Square, Moscow. It cannot, however, be found there today.

This MS recorded in M.P. Alexeyev, British Manuscripts in Russia, TLS (21 September 1946), p. 456. Recorded (but not traced) in de Beer, I, 44.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Orlov MS])

*EvJ 222 c.1636-60

Autograph

Autograph notes, entered c.1636-7, partly deleted and rewritten c.1660, in two printed almanacs: Jonathan Dove, A New Almanacke and Prognostication (Cambridge, 1636) and Thomas Langley, A New Almanack and Prognostication (Cambridge, 1637).

This MS discussed in de Beer, I, 48, and the notes edited, I, 75-7, with a facsimile example after p. 76. A facsimile example is also in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 62.

A composite volume of five printed almanacs, includings almanacs by Gresham (1603) and by Dove (1637 and 1640), the volume also containing notes in unidentified hands.

Formerly owned by Mrs S.L. Barnard, of Cave Castle, East Yorkshire. Sotheby's, 23 June 1925, lot 345, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue.

Balliol College, Oxford (PRT. 670. a. 13 [no pages indicated])

*EvJ 223

Autograph

Autograph notes in a printed exemplum of Sir George Wharton, No Merline, nor Mercurie, but a new Almanack...for...1647 ([York?], 1647).

In a composite volume of five printed almanacs, the others being William Lilly, Merlini Anglici Ephemeris ([London], 1647: 2 copies), The Welsh-Man's New Almanacke for 1647 and Wharton, Hemeroscopeion for 1645.

c.1647

Once owned by Mrs S.L. Barnard, of Cave Castle, East Yorkshire. Sotheby's, 23 June 1925, lot 347 to Thorp.

This MS recorded in de Beer, I, 48.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Evelyn's almanacs])

Documents

Will

*EvJ 224

Autograph

Evelyn's autograph memorandum The paper of particulars given to my Wife Referring to my Codicil.

An unbound folder of papers relating to wills and executorship, 69 leaves.

Volume CCXLV of the Evelyn Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78412 f. 1r)

*EvJ 225 1704

Autograph

Evelyn's autograph and signed last will and testament, with a codicil, chiefly on broadsheets, 29 February 1703/4.

An unbound folder of papers relating to wills and executorship, 69 leaves.

Volume CCXLV of the Evelyn Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78412 ff. 2r-14r)

*EvJ 226 1706

Autograph

Autograph rough draft of Evelyn's last will and testament, 20 February 1705/6.

An unbound folder of papers relating to wills and executorship, 69 leaves.

Volume CCXLV of the Evelyn Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78412 f. 16r-v)

*EvJ 227

Autograph

Evelyn's autograph last will and testament, proved 18 March 1705.

National Archives, Kew (PROB 1/55)

John Evelyn

Introduction

The Christ Church Evelyn Collection

The British Library

Presentation Volumes Inscribed by Evelyn

Letters

Evelyn's Library

Miscellaneous Documents

Abbreviations

Verse

Prose

Works Published in Evelyn's Lifetime

Miscellaneous Remains

Dramatic Works

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