The noise of this book's suppression made it presently be bought up, and turn'd much to the stationer's advantage.

It was no other than the Preface prepar'd to be prefix'd to my History of the whole Warr; which I now pursued no further.' Years afterwards, however, he wrote somewhat bitterly on this subject to his intimate friend Pepys, in a letter dated 28th April 1682, in which he says, 'In sum, I had no thanks for what I had done, and have been accounted since, I suppose, an useless fop, and fit only to plant coleworts, and I cannot bend to mean submissions; and this, Sir, is the history of the Historian.

I confess to you, I had once the vanity to hope, had my patron continued in his station, for some, at least, honorary title that might have animated my progress, as seeing then some amongst them whose talents I did not envy: but it was not my fortune to succeed.' This certainly seems as if Evelyn had been hoping for knighthood from King Charles.

If his desire lay this way, it is difficult to reconcile such private admission with the definite statement made in the diary of 19th April, 1661, that 'he might have receiv'd this honour,' of Knighthood of the Bath 'but declined it.' Evelyn's other publications, works of considerably less importance, include _Tyrannus or the Mode, in a Discourse of Sumptuary Laws_ (1661); _A Parallel of the Ancient Architecture with the Modern_ (1664), and _An Idea of the Perfection of Painting, Demonstrated from the Principles of Art_ (1668), both translated from the French of Roland Freart; _Another Part of the Mystery of Jesuitisim_, also from the French (1665); _Publick Employment, and an Active Life preferr'd to Solitude_ (1667: a reply to Sir George Mackenzie's Work on Solitude); _The History of three late famous Imposters_ (Padre Ottomano, Mahomed Bei, and Sabatei Sevi: 1669); _Mundus Muliebris: or the Ladies Dressing-room Unlock'd and her Toilette spread_ (1690: a burlesque poem, 'A voyage to Marryland,' cataloguing female follies of the time, by his daughter Mary, who died in 1685); _Numismata: a Discourse of Medals, Antient and Modern: &c._ (1697); and _Acetaria: a Discourse of Sallets_ (1699), which was merely a chapter, written many years previously, of an extensive work he intended writing under the comprehensive title of _Elysium Britannicum_.
There is no doubt that, but for his immersion in public affairs in middle life, Evelyn would have been a much larger producer of literary work than he actually was.

But it seems very questionable if this would in any substantial way have added to the enduring reputation he won for himself by _Sylva_.
In addition to his published works, however, he left numerous manuscripts, which he had noted as 'Things I would write out faire and reform if I had leisure,' comprising poems, mathematical papers, religious meditations, and biographies.