The English diarist and public official Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) kept a diary that provides a graphic account of English social life and conditions during the early period of the Restoration.Samuel Pe...
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Samuel Pepys, author of the finest and bestknown diary in English, was born in Salisbury Court near Fleet Street in London on 23 February 1633. He was the fifth of eleven children, of whom only three ...
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In a 1695 memorandum in his diary Samuel Pepys wrote that he intended for his collection of books to differ from the "Extensive, Pompous, and Stationary Libraries of Princes, Universities, Colleges an...
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Biography EssaySamuel Pepys, author of the finest and bestknown diary in English, was born in Salisbury Court near Fleet Street in London on 23 February 1633. He was the fifth of eleven children, of w...
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Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 65: May 1668
Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys