Pepys' Diary

American  

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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Example Sentences

The PhD student admitted what she knew about Pepys' diary had "clouded my opinion of him and Restoration society".

From BBC

This is no work of literature, like Pepys’ diary, but a much more telegraphic record of day-to-day facts.

From Literature

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

Samuel Pepys’ Diary did indeed mention tripe in the entry for Oct.

From Los Angeles Times

Hitchings, who seems at times as much aggregator as historian, references many important, if tangential, works that reflected manners of that period and beyond, among them Samuel Pepys’ diary and works by both English and European commentators.

From Seattle Times