I was thinking that this strange linkage of Samuel Pepys and Sei Shonagon was a whimsical idea all my own, when my daughter surprised me at breakfast the next morning by suddenly saying, "Last ...

At the anniversary meeting in 1684, Pepys became the Society's president, and it is of interest to note the frequency or otherwise of his attendances at council meetings, or at the general ...

ON February 23 the tercentenary of the birth of Samuel Pepys was commemorated in London and at Cambridge. The London celebrations included a lecture by Mr. E. Chappell arranged by the Society for ...

THE three hundredth anniversary of the birth of Samuel Pepys, a moving, dramatic figure in the political and social annals of the Restoration period, falls on February 23. Born either at Brampton ...

A New York dealer bought it, and the 272-page manuscript seemed destined to remain forever separate from the other six books of the Meta morphoses, bequeathed by Diarist Samuel Pepys in 1703 to ...

SAMUELS PEPYS : THE YEARS of PERIL —Arthur Bryant—Macmillan ($3.50). Because Samuel Pepys took snapshots of himself in various revealing postures and the negatives were discovered and ...

Sex, Lice and Chamber Pots in Pepys' London Find out more About Samuel Pepys Some people credit Samuel Pepys with using a code but in fact he was writing in Shelton's well-known shorthand.

Who but Pepys would have thought of solemnly recording the first sirloin of beef "that ever I had of mine own buying since I was a housekeeper," and what a pity it would have been had he not, or ...

Readers of the diary of Samuel Pepys know the intimate scenes that pop out so unexpectedly among the humdrum entries on office work and financial difficulties— such passages as Pepys's ...