William Wotton - John Evelyn - 1698-01-20

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William Wotton, Milton

William Wotton - John Evelyn - 1698-01-20

FINA IDUnique ID of the page ᵖ	16255
InstitutionName of Institution.
InventoryInventory number.
AuthorAuthor of the document.	William Wotton
RecipientRecipient of the correspondence.	John Evelyn
Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year .	January 20, 1698
PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution.	Milton 51° 50' 27.20" N, 0° 53' 59.32" W
Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation.	John Greaves, Philip Skippon, Edmund Gibson, William Camden, Jean Hardouin
LiteratureReference to literature.	Greaves 1647Greaves 1647, Hardouin 1684Hardouin 1684, Camden 1695Camden 1695, Evelyn 1697Evelyn 1697, Bray - Wheatley 1906, vol. 4, pp. 19-21Bray - Wheatley 1906, Burnett 2020b, pp. 832-3Burnett 2020b
KeywordNumismatic Keywords ᵖ	Local Finds , Book , Saxon , Greek , Delphi
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence	English
External LinkLink to external information, e.g. Wikpedia ᵖ	https://archive.org/details/diaryofjohnevely0000unse j9l2/page/18/mode/2up

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'I had just got a box of papers, & was going to digest matters for the forge, when I was agreeably stopp’d by your admirable Numismata, w^ch the last return of the carrier brought me. I needed no spur to read it; y^e author, y^e subject, added wings to my diligence. ... I was so truly charmed, so pleasingly taught thro’ the whole work, that y^e grief of being so soon at an end, wrought as violently at last as the joy I felt as I went along. The printer, indeed, raised my indignation; I was angry with him, & troubled to see my pen so often disfigure so elegant a book. ... My head is so very full of what I have learned & am to learn by your instructions, that I had almost forgotten to thank you for your honourable mention of my poor performances in so standing a work. ... My most honoured friend y^e late S^r Philip Skippon, who had a noble cabinet of Medals, w^ch he thoroughly understood, sent me an account of some Saxon coyns found in Suffolke, which I printed with some remarks of my own in y^e Transact. N° 187, with the initial letters of both our names. The new editor of Camden took no notice of these coyns, tho I gave them warning, & tho there are some here w^ch are not in their collection. You have been pleased to referr to them, for w^ch, Sir, I am bound to express my thanks. But this is not all. I have been censured heavily for blaming S^r W. T.’s Delphos, & substituting Delphi in its place. Your authority will now (if I am publickly a........) decide y^e controversy. I am opposed with an authority of a Medal in F. Hardouin’s Num'i Urbium, with this inscription, ΔΕΛΦΟΥ, y^e genitive, say they, of Delphos, y^e nominative of the name of the city. I use to reply that it was the genitive of Delphus, Apollo’s son, mentioned by severall of y^e ancients; w^ch explication you confirm, p. 189, where you inform these cavallers, that Εἰκῶν or Νομισμα, is understood. Tis time to release you; onely pray, Sir, do me the favor at your leisure to inform me, whether there is ever another Coyne published with the Bipennis Tenedia upon it, besides that w^ch John Graves printed in his Roman Denarius.' (Bray - Wheatley 1906, vol. 4, pp. 19-21; Burnett 2020b, pp. 832-3)