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Sender: Evelyn, John
Recipient: Plot, Robert, Dr
Letters: 1
Date(s): 9 Dec 1687
Location: BC MS Misc. Letters 1 Evelyn. In envelope, with a typescript copy
Note: Information concerning the life of Sir Richard Brown, Plot's father-in-law, for Anthony Wood's "Athenae Oxoniensis". Transcript of the inscription on his monument, with the note: "For he would be interr'd in the Church-yard, close to the wall of the Church, where is a black marble ballustred over him, with a short Latine inscription. This English one being in an Ile within the Church. The letters are all Capitol". Reference to his "accademical learning" and his relations with Charles I and Charles II. His life in France and his religious beliefs, his services to the King and the attraction of his character.
Sender: Evelyn, John
Recipient: Thoresby, Ralph
Letters: 1
Date(s): 19 Jul 16[99]
Location: BC MS Misc. Letters 1 Evelyn. In folding cloth case, guarded, with typescript copy
Note: Apologises for delay in answering Thoresby's letter, due to his involvement in an estate appeal to Parliament, and to the death of his only son. Discussion of the cures achieved by Mr Stroaker ("Phil. Trans.", 256) by laying on of hands. Wishes to send him a Nanteuil print.
Sender: Godelphnis [?]
Recipient: Evelyn, John
Letters: 1
Date(s): 6 Nov 1710
Location: BC Misc letters (bound): "A Collection of Autograph Letters From Eminent Peers" vol. A - K
Note: Collected by John Temple.
Title: The immortality of verse
Author: Evelyn, John
Date(s): 1685 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: On poetry's role as preserver of the memory of great men and the immortality of the poets compared to the transitory nature of material things. Transcription of 'The immortality of poesie', by John Evelyn, after Ovid 'To Envy', Amores, I.15
Title: Of the impertinence of common conversation
Author: Evelyn, John
Date(s): 1685 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: On the virtue of solitude and vanity and folly of contemporary pleasures and concerns. Transcription of 'Morose', by John Evelyn.