Autograph letter signed by the Bodley Librarian, Thomas Barlow to John Evelyn thanking him for the gift of books to the library (“...I have receaved...those choice peices which you were pleased soe generously, and charitably to give to Bodley´s Library, and soe increase our store, though with a diminution of your owne. Having noe possibility to requite this your kindnesse, and munificence to the publique...I have sent this little paper-messenger to acknowledge our obligation, and bringe our hartiest thankes. I am glad I have gott your name into our Register, amongst those noble and publique soules which have beene our best Benefactors, and I hope it will be noe dishonor to you, when posterity shall there read your name, and charity. I knowe you have goodnesse enough to pardon this rude, and (I feare) impertinent scrible. God Allmighty blesse you, and all those more generous, and charitable soules who dare love learning, and be good in bad times...”); docketed by Evelyn, once in pencil on receipt and subsequently inked over by him (“From Mr Barlow/protobibliothecarius/of/the Bodleän Library/in Oxford/17 Mar;/1654/55”) and later in ink (“Afterwards provost of Queen Coll:/& Bishop of Lincoln...Thanking me for some Bookes, wh/I sent to the Library”), one page, folio, integral address leaf (“ffor my honored friend/John Evelyn Esq/att Detford/these”), sealed, Evelyn´s docket on address leaf, guard, priced in pencil at one guinea, tear in lower margin of first leaf unobtrusively repaired, overall in fine condition, Queen´s College, Oxford, 17 March 1654/55 BARLOW THANKS EVELYN FOR A GIFT OF BOOKS TO THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY. Books were important to Evelyn, and his library has been described as being the predominant enthusiasm of his life. He once remarked that “I ever look upon a Library with the reverence of a temple”, and published a translation of Gabriel Naudé´s Instructions concerning Erecting of a Library (1661). He was also responsible for drawing up a plan for the library of the Royal Society (see Geoffrey Keynes, John Evelyn A Study in Bibliophily with a Bibliography of his Writings, 1937). On 11 July 1654 Evelyn called upon Barlow at Oxford, and later wrote in his diary: “after dinner, I visited that miracle of a youth Mr Christopher Wren nephew to the Bishop of Ely; then, my most learned friend Mr Barlow, since Bishop of Lincoln, who was then Librarian to the Bodleian, and who showed us the rarities of that famous place – manuscripts, medals and other curiosities”. On 25 October 1664 he again called on the Bodley and saw where Barlow had – in fulfilment of the promise made in this letter – enrolled his name: “we went to see the rarities in the Library, where the librarians showed me my name among the benefactors”. Barlow had been appointed the Bodley´s Librarian in 1642 and held the post until 1660. He was Provost of Queen´s from 1658 till 1677, where the Upper Library of 1693-6 was built to house his donations. He was to bequeath fifty-four manuscripts, together with some books, to the Bodleian. See illustration overleaf.
Autograph letter signed by the Bodley Librarian, Thomas Barlow to John Evelyn thanking him for the gift of books to the library (“...I have receaved...those choice peices which you were pleased soe generously, and charitably to give to Bodley´s Library, and soe increase our store, though with a diminution of your owne. Having noe possibility to requite this your kindnesse, and munificence to the publique...I have sent this little paper-messenger to acknowledge our obligation, and bringe our hartiest thankes. I am glad I have gott your name into our Register, amongst those noble and publique soules which have beene our best Benefactors, and I hope it will be noe dishonor to you, when posterity shall there read your name, and charity. I knowe you have goodnesse enough to pardon this rude, and (I feare) impertinent scrible. God Allmighty blesse you, and all those more generous, and charitable soules who dare love learning, and be good in bad times...”); docketed by Evelyn, once in pencil on receipt and subsequently inked over by him (“From Mr Barlow/protobibliothecarius/of/the Bodleän Library/in Oxford/17 Mar;/1654/55”) and later in ink (“Afterwards provost of Queen Coll:/& Bishop of Lincoln...Thanking me for some Bookes, wh/I sent to the Library”), one page, folio, integral address leaf (“ffor my honored friend/John Evelyn Esq/att Detford/these”), sealed, Evelyn´s docket on address leaf, guard, priced in pencil at one guinea, tear in lower margin of first leaf unobtrusively repaired, overall in fine condition, Queen´s College, Oxford, 17 March 1654/55 BARLOW THANKS EVELYN FOR A GIFT OF BOOKS TO THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY. Books were important to Evelyn, and his library has been described as being the predominant enthusiasm of his life. He once remarked that “I ever look upon a Library with the reverence of a temple”, and published a translation of Gabriel Naudé´s Instructions concerning Erecting of a Library (1661). He was also responsible for drawing up a plan for the library of the Royal Society (see Geoffrey Keynes, John Evelyn A Study in Bibliophily with a Bibliography of his Writings, 1937). On 11 July 1654 Evelyn called upon Barlow at Oxford, and later wrote in his diary: “after dinner, I visited that miracle of a youth Mr Christopher Wren nephew to the Bishop of Ely; then, my most learned friend Mr Barlow, since Bishop of Lincoln, who was then Librarian to the Bodleian, and who showed us the rarities of that famous place – manuscripts, medals and other curiosities”. On 25 October 1664 he again called on the Bodley and saw where Barlow had – in fulfilment of the promise made in this letter – enrolled his name: “we went to see the rarities in the Library, where the librarians showed me my name among the benefactors”. Barlow had been appointed the Bodley´s Librarian in 1642 and held the post until 1660. He was Provost of Queen´s from 1658 till 1677, where the Upper Library of 1693-6 was built to house his donations. He was to bequeath fifty-four manuscripts, together with some books, to the Bodleian. See illustration overleaf.
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