He maintained it, in secrecy, from 1660, the year of the restoration, until 1669 when fear of blindness prevented his daily labours. Samuel pepys, english diarist and naval administrator, celebrated for his diary first published in 1825, which gives a fascinating picture of the official and upperclass life of restoration london from jan. Born in london in 1633, the son of a tailor, he began. This study uses his surviving papers to examine reading practices, collecting, and the exchange of information in the late seventeenth century. The diary of samuel pepys 1662 audiobook samuel pepys 1633 1703 samuel pepys was the first secretary to the admiralty during the.
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Johns college, cambridge, from the original shorthand ms. A witness to the coronation of charles ii, the great plague of 1665, and the great fire of 1666, pepys chronicled the events of his day. Written between 1660 and 1669, as pepys was establishing himself as a key administrator in the naval office, it is an intimate portrait of life in seventeenthcentury england, covering his professional and personal activities, including, famously, his love. This chapter is entitled and so to bed and written in the form of entries from the pepys diary. He maintained it, in secrecy, from 1660, the year of the restoration, until 1669 when fear of blindness prevented his daily.
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Although the diary of samuel pepys has been in the hands of the public for nearly seventy years, it has not hitherto appeared in its entirety. Mynors bright from the shorthand manuscript in the pepysian library at magdalene college cambrige, with lord braybrooks notes. This complete edition of the diary of samuel pepys comprises eleven volumes. Diary of samuel pepys by samuel pepys free at loyal books. The diary of samuel pepys, unknown binding january 1, 1935 by samuel pepys author.
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