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• Lot n° 26 BOYLE (ROBERT) Letter signed ('Ro Boyle') to John Evelyn ('Sir'), [n.p., but Oxford], 23 May 1657 Letter signed ("Ro Boyle") to John Evelyn ("Sir"), a friendly and complimentary letter beginning by thanking him for his "...obligeing Letter...", and sorry to hear he has been indisposed, confessing he is "...a Person addicted to experimentall Learning...", and hoping he will soon return to the "...Commonwealth of Learning...", and although "...You but too justly complain tht. the Age & Country we live in, doe not value reall Learning as highly as it merits, yet I confesse I am apt to thinke that the surest & most obligeing way to make men value it, is to lett them see by its reall & usefull Productions how vast a Disparity there is betwixt experimentall & notionall Learning, which makes me become an earnest Suitor to you...", hoping he "...shall next have the Happines to exchange a few Words with You but that some Expedient may be found to reconcile the disclosure of many Secrets, with the keeping up & secureing the Reputation of Learning...", going on to thank him for the varnish which "...I am endeavouring by tryall to understand better...", and in turn presenting him with "...the way of preserving some sorts of Flowers wch. I enclose verbatim as I found it in a Paper wherein I set it down for my own Remembrance...", ending by mentioning Dr Wilkins who is "... very sensible of yr. Civility's to him...", docketed "The Philosopher Boyle to Mr Evelyn" at head and "Mr Robert Boyle to Mr Evelyn, 1657" on reverse in other hands, 3 pages on a bifolium, trimmed at upper edge, dust-staining, spotting and marks, creased at folds with some holes and small tears, 4to (188 x 150mm.), [n.p., but Oxford], 23 May 1657