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Marian's letters to papa were a Sunday ritual, and in them she re-created the Washington merry-go-round of her day with Pepysian verve and caustic charm.

From Time Magazine Archive

Far from confirming this impression, the unexpurgated diary shows Greville as extremely scrupulous�too scrupulous�in omitting just this kind of Pepysian gossip.

From Time Magazine Archive

It reveals him to us as a man of immense mental activity and power of observation, hard humorous common-sense, and an almost Pepysian interest in all the doings of mankind.

From The Surrender of Napoleon Being the narrative of the surrender of Buonaparte, and of his residence on board H.M.S. Bellerophon, with a detail of the principal events that occurred in that ship between the 24th of May and the 8th of August 1815 by Dickson, William Kirk

The edition in the Pepysian Library is dated 1689.

From The Private Library What We Do Know, What We Don't Know, What We Ought to Know About Our Books by Humphreys, Arthur Lee

And finally, I would like to thank the unknown author of the Pepysian Gospel Harmony MS 2498 for bringing me joy.

From The Gospels in Four Part Harmony by Clontz, J.