Pepys' Diary

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noun

1. a diary kept by Samuel Pepys from January 1, 1660 to May 31, 1669, in which are recorded his impressions of contemporary London life, the life of the court, and the administration of the navy.

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Pepys' Diary

Five years later, Gould told a reporter, “Havelock Ellis has compared my book to Samuel Pepys’ Diary, because I try to get the forgotten man into history.”

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 27, 2015

If any man could have learned the lesson of history it was Juxon's successor, the hard sceptical Sheldon, and one of the jottings in Pepys' Diary shows us what sort of lesson he had learned.

From Stray Studies from England and Italy by Greene, John Richard

Pepys' Diary, March 2,1663 Commodore Coe, of the Montevidian Navy, defeated Admiral Brown of the Buenos Ayrean Navy, in a naval battle, when he used Holland cheese for cannon balls.

From The Complete Book of Cheese by Brown, Robert Carlton

During this prolific period Mark wrote many minor items, most of them rejected by Howells, and read extensively in one of his favorite books, Pepys' Diary.

From 1601 Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors by Twain, Mark

"We place a high value on Pepys' Diary as the richest and most delightful contribution ever made to the history of English life and manners in the latter half of the seventeenth century."

From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Thornbury, Walter