BIB_ID
107069
Accession number
MA 3725
Creator
Evelyn, Mary (Browne), 1635-1708/9.
Display Date
London, England, 1668 March 22.
Credit line
Gift of Thomas V. Lange, 1979.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 25.1 x 18.6 cm
Notes
Written from Sayes Court.
Year of writing from endorsement.
From 1666-1671, Bohun worked as tutor to the Evelyn's son John. Bohun would later serve as Prebendary at Salisbury Cathedral from 1701.
Year of writing from endorsement.
From 1666-1671, Bohun worked as tutor to the Evelyn's son John. Bohun would later serve as Prebendary at Salisbury Cathedral from 1701.
Provenance
Gift of Thomas V. Lange, 1979.
Summary
Writing on Easter Sunday, she gently chides the preacher for his serious manner and says that she will have to give up "raillery" and become a "grave Mattron whose chiefe entertainments are making salves disttilling performing family duties, I have sent you a fast of each sort of spirits, and sweetmeats, which at this time of the yeare will not credit me much...;" mentioning the birth of an heir at Wotton.
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