EVELYN, John (1620-1706). Autograph letter signed ('J. Evelyn') to SAMUEL PEPYS, Berkley Street, Saturday, 14 January 1698/9, one page, folio, with integral address leaf , endorsed 'A Le[tte]r of respect' (seal tears to address leaf neatly repaired). Provenance : The Estate of Marjorie Wiggin Prescott, sold Christie's, New York, 6 February 1981, lot 107.
EVELYN, John (1620-1706). Autograph letter signed ('J. Evelyn') to SAMUEL PEPYS, Berkley Street, Saturday, 14 January 1698/9, one page, folio, with integral address leaf , endorsed 'A Le[tte]r of respect' (seal tears to address leaf neatly repaired). Provenance : The Estate of Marjorie Wiggin Prescott, sold Christie's, New York, 6 February 1981, lot 107. A lively letter from Evelyn to his fellow diarist. 'I should not know what Apology to make for having now been so long from kissing yr hands; or tollerable Excuse for the Injury I have don myself, in the losse of a Conversation which I assure you, I Esteeme one of the greatest felicities of my whole life...'. Evelyn had resolved to visit Pepys on the day of writing, 'to have brought with me my young Man to Acknowledge your favorable acceptance of his Small Essays' but has been indisposed, 'we are all (Male & femal[e]) so discomposd & dejected with Coughs, Defuxlions, Sore throats &c that we are fitter for Hospitals...'. Instead, Evelyn wishes Pepys and his mistress, Mary Skinner, a happy and prosperous new year, 'and in particular the Lady, all ye Satisfaction of a Versailles, in the Cabinet she is adorning & worthie Mistris of, aboundantly sufficient to gratify the Curiosity of those who having had the hapynesse to see it, think it not worth the going into France, so long as it is in more perfection at York-street'. Evelyn's postscript makes it clear that Pepys has lent him a book which proved difficult to peruse in its unbound state.
EVELYN, John (1620-1706). Autograph letter signed ('J. Evelyn') to SAMUEL PEPYS, Berkley Street, Saturday, 14 January 1698/9, one page, folio, with integral address leaf , endorsed 'A Le[tte]r of respect' (seal tears to address leaf neatly repaired). Provenance : The Estate of Marjorie Wiggin Prescott, sold Christie's, New York, 6 February 1981, lot 107.
EVELYN, John (1620-1706). Autograph letter signed ('J. Evelyn') to SAMUEL PEPYS, Berkley Street, Saturday, 14 January 1698/9, one page, folio, with integral address leaf , endorsed 'A Le[tte]r of respect' (seal tears to address leaf neatly repaired). Provenance : The Estate of Marjorie Wiggin Prescott, sold Christie's, New York, 6 February 1981, lot 107. A lively letter from Evelyn to his fellow diarist. 'I should not know what Apology to make for having now been so long from kissing yr hands; or tollerable Excuse for the Injury I have don myself, in the losse of a Conversation which I assure you, I Esteeme one of the greatest felicities of my whole life...'. Evelyn had resolved to visit Pepys on the day of writing, 'to have brought with me my young Man to Acknowledge your favorable acceptance of his Small Essays' but has been indisposed, 'we are all (Male & femal[e]) so discomposd & dejected with Coughs, Defuxlions, Sore throats &c that we are fitter for Hospitals...'. Instead, Evelyn wishes Pepys and his mistress, Mary Skinner, a happy and prosperous new year, 'and in particular the Lady, all ye Satisfaction of a Versailles, in the Cabinet she is adorning & worthie Mistris of, aboundantly sufficient to gratify the Curiosity of those who having had the hapynesse to see it, think it not worth the going into France, so long as it is in more perfection at York-street'. Evelyn's postscript makes it clear that Pepys has lent him a book which proved difficult to peruse in its unbound state.
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