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John Evelyn's Diary

The diary of John Evelyn, a gentlemanly Royalist and virtuoso of the seventeenth century, was first published in 1818 under the title Memoirs Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, in an edition by William Bray. Bray was assisted by William Upcott, who had access to the Evelyn family archives. The diary of Evelyn's contemporary Samuel Pepys was first published in 1825, and became more celebrated; but the publication of Evelyn's work in part prompted the attention given to Pepys's.

Editions
After Bray's initial editing and selection, other editors worked on the Diary in the following century. A revised edition in 1827 was edited by Upcott, and was reprinted in 4 volumes in 1879 with a Life by Henry Benjamin Wheatley (reissued in 1906). There was a four-volume edition by John Forster (1850–1852). A later edition was by Austin Dobson (3 vols., 1906). The total number of words in the manuscript is over half a million, of which Bray's edition printed under 60%. A modern scholarly edition, in six volumes, edited by Esmond Samuel de Beer was published by Clarendon Press in 1955, a project originating in the early 1930s. The Oxford Standard Authors edition of the Diary, edited by E. S. de Beer from his six-volume edition, was first published by Oxford University Press in 1959. ==References==
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