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	Samuel Pepys - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pepys was born in London in 1633, the son of a tailor.
		Pepys made detailed provisions in his will for the preservation of his book collection, and when his nephew and heir John Jackson died in 1723, it was transferred intact to the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where it can still be seen.
		Arthur Bryant, Pepys — The Saviour of the Navy 1683–1689.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samuel_Pepys (2159 words)

	Magdalene College -- Samuel Pepys
		Pepys was a boy of ability and, after a short spell during the Civil War at the grammar school in Huntingdon, he was sent to St Paul's School and thence, with a leaving Exhibition, to Magdalene in 1651.
		Pepys and his library clerk devised a great three-volumed catalogue; collated Pepysian copies with those in other collections; adorned volume upon volume with exquisite title pages written calligraphically by assistants; pasted prints into their guard-books; and inserted indexes and lists of contents.
		It is still housed in the glazed bookcases that Pepys had had made for it by dockyard joiners over the years, and still arranged in the order in which he and his heir had left it.
	www.magd.cam.ac.uk /pepys/latham.html (1105 words)

	Samuel Pepys. Robert Louis Stevenson. 1909-14. Essays: English and American. The Harvard Classics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pepys was a young man for his age, came slowly to himself in the world, sowed his wild oats late, took late to industry, and preserved till nearly forty the headlong gusto of a boy.
		Pepys was not such an ass, but he must have perceived, as he went on, the extraordinary nature of the work he was producing.
		For the difference between Pepys and Shelley, to return to that half whimsical approximation, is one of quality but not one of degree; in his sphere, Pepys felt as keenly, and his is the true prose of poetry—prose because the spirit of the man was narrow and earthly, but poetry because he was delightedly alive.
	www.bartleby.com /28/12.html (5707 words)

	MSN Encarta - Samuel Pepys
		Pepys, Samuel (1633-1703), English diarist and civil servant, who kept one of the most candid, self-revealing diaries known, and who in his official capacity helped to give Britain one of the strongest navies in the world.
		Pepys was chosen president of the Royal Society in 1684 and was again named secretary of the admiralty.
		Pepys bequeathed his collection of books and manuscripts, including the diary, to Magdalene College, where they are housed in the Pepysian Library.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761552401/Pepys_Samuel.html (357 words)

	The Life of Samuel Pepys (1633-1703)
		Samuel Pepys was born on February 23, 1633, the son of a London tailor, and fifth of eleven children.
		Pepys stopped writing his diary in the spring of 1669—at the age of 36, his eyesight had gotten worse, and he feared losing his sight altogether.
		Pepys became a Member of Parliament and Secretary of the Admiralty in 1673, and took part in organizing the navy during the war with the Dutch in 1672-74.
	www.luminarium.org /eightlit/pepys/pepysbio.htm (412 words)

	Samuel Pepys Biography
		In 1618 Paulina Pepys married a brother of the 1st Earl of Manchester, Sir Sydney Montagu, who in 1627 acquired the house and estate of Hinchingbrooke, near Huntingdon.
		Pepys' vanity is usually given as the reason for his need to write a diary was.
		Sam Pepys, a very worthy, industrious, and curious person, none in England exceeding him in knowledge of the navy, in which he had passed thro' all the most considerable offices, Clerk of the Acts and Secretary of the Admiralty, all which he performed with great integrity.
	www.pepys.info /pepbiog.html (1292 words)

	The World of Samuel Pepys Paper Dolls
		Pepys paper doll is based on his portrait from 1666.
		Pepys found the small fl dog cute when she was given to his wife by her brother, but within a couple of days was threatening to throw it out the window for urinating in the house.
		Pepys several times mentions Elizabeth's petticoats, such as 19 August 1660 where he complains it is light in color and no great show.
	www.gallimauphry.com /PD/pepys/pepys.html (1317 words)

	Complete Diary of Samuel Pepys - PARTICULARS OF THE LIFE OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
		The family of Pepys is one of considerable antiquity in the east of England, and the Hon.
		Pepys was wrong, as it was eleven years; so she may have been wrong in the day also.
		Pepys and Sir Anthony Deane were committed to the Tower under the Speaker's warrant on May 22nd, 1679, and Pepys's place at the Admiralty was filled by the appointment of Thomas Hayter.
	www.globusz.com /ebooks/Pepys/00000013.htm (10469 words)

	SAMUEL PEPYS
		Pepys was close to the center of events, and in a position to observe the players in an extraordinary drama; in the years to follow he became a figure of considerable power and authority.
		Pepys wrote of the Plot atmosphere, "Such is the credulity of this unhappy age that no accumulation of evidence can be too much to support the most obvious truth." He recovered his post at the Admiralty, but the "Glorious Revolution" toppled James II and put Pepys into permanent retirement.
		Though Pepys, as she shows, is perhaps without peer as a near-scientific observer and recorder of his own experience, behavior and emotions, the self operates a little differently, and in a way less prominently, in his diary than in many that came later.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /100103.html (14478 words)

	Pepys' Diary: The story so far
		Samuel Pepys was born in London on 23 February 1633, the fifth of eleven children, although by the time he was seven only three of his siblings, all younger, had survived.
		Later the same year Pepys and his wife moved from a single room in Mountagu’s lodgings to Axe Yard near the palace of Westminster, where he was living when starting the diary in 1660.
		Pepys was always ‘with child to see any strange thing’ — living and savouring every moment of his life with an intensity which never failed, despite occasional spasms of guilt.
	www.pepysdiary.com /about/history (744 words)

	The Open Door Web Site : History : Samuel Pepys (1633-1703)
		Pepys proved to be an honest, hard-working man, with a talent for organization and a good eye for detail.
		What makes Samual Pepys’ diary so special is that his cousin's position meant that he was able to be present at many important events, which, of course, he meticulously recorded in shorthand.
		Pepys' diary was given to Magdalene College in Cambridge, but it was not decoded until 1822.
	www.saburchill.com /history/chapters/chap4016.html (461 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pepys wrote his diary throughout the 1660s, "a period as intellectually thrilling as it was dangerous and bloody", and Tomalin's book vividly brings to life the tumultuous world of 17-century London, where Pepys grew up.
		Pepys' life spanned the execution of one king and the restoration of another, and Tomalin elegantly recreates both Pepys' public and private lives.
		Pepys was an upwardly mobile civil servant at the time of the English Civil War and the Restoration.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140282343 (1376 words)

	SAMUEL PEPYS - Claire Tomalin - Penguin UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In Samuel Pepys Tomalin traces Pepy's youth and the extraordinary triumphs and disasters that continued for three decades after the diary ended; finally showing how he made sure that the diary would be preserved for posterity.
		Pepys began as a republican and continued to have severe misgivings about Charles II throughout the period of the diary, but his career depended on serving the King and his brother and heir, James, Duke of York, also Lord High Admiral.
		Pepys' account of marriage is one of the great themes of his Diary because it shows how fluid his feelings were - something I believe to be true of most of us, although not often acknowledged.
	www.penguinbooks.co.uk /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0141803983,00.html (1559 words)

	Samuel Pepys' London Chronicles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This might have summed up Pepys' life except for one fact: from 1660 to 1669, through some of the most colorful and stirring events in English history, he kept a diary that may be the best ever written.
		In 1660 Pepys had a key post at the Navy Office and was well placed to record the court activities of the restored king, whose mistresses were plentiful.
		Yet Pepys was just as apt to record his own lechery as that of Charles II.
	www.smithsonianmag.si.edu /smithsonian/issues01/jul01/pepys.html (393 words)

	Samuel Pepys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Samuel Pepys, the son of a tailor, John Pepys, was born in London in 1633.
		Pepys was released and in 1683 and the following year was reinstated as Secretary to the Admiralty.
		Pepys was imprisoned by the new government and was not released until 1700.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /STUpepys.htm (768 words)

	BBC - History - Samuel Pepys (1633 - 1703)
		Known for his exhaustive diaries written in code, Samuel Pepys also enjoyed a successful career in public service as naval administrator and Britain's first ever secretary of the Admiralty, Member of Parliament and President of the Royal Society.
		Pepys' road to success was not an obvious one.
		Pepys was a confidante of the two kings whom he served - Charles II and James II.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/pepys_samuel.shtml (337 words)

	New Statesman: The diarist as novelist - Books - Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self - Book Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		On 30 September 1665, for example, Pepys, returning home from a long day at the office, and a boozy dinner, found his wife Elizabeth "out of order", and "she took me downstairs, and there alone did tell me her falling out with both her maids, and particularly Mary".
		Mary, apparently, was threatening to tell Pepys that his wife was carrying on a flirtation with her painting master.
		Tomalin's Pepys is a thoroughly rounded character, whose fortunes she charts with a steady hand.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4607_131/ai_93208495 (807 words)

	Modern History Sourcebook: Robert Louis Stevenson: Samuel Pepys, 1886
		Pepys, in an agony lest the world should come to see it, brutally seizes and destroys the tell tale document; and then - you disbelieve your eyes - down goes the whole story with unsparing truth and in the cruellest detail.
		In a dozen ways, Pepys was quite strong enough to please himself without regard for others; but his positive qualities were not co - extensive with the field of conduct; and in many parts of life he followed, with gleeful precision, in the footprints of the contemporary Mrs.
		He would not be "bribed to be unjust," he says, though he was "not so squeamish as to refuse a present after," suppose the king to have received no wrong.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/Stevenson-pepys.html (6173 words)

	Powell's Books - The diary of Samuel Pepys by
		Diary of Samuel Pepys #03: The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol.
		Diary of Samuel Pepys #02: The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol.
		Diary of Samuel Pepys #01: The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0520226941-4 (310 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - Samuel Pepys
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		The son of a tailor, Pepys was born in London February 23, 1633.
		He also compiled letters and documents relevant to his public career in Memoires Relating to the State of the Royal Navy (1690).
	encarta.msn.com /text_761552401__1/Samuel_Pepys.html (417 words)

	Pepys, Samuel on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In 1684 Pepys was reappointed secretary to the admiralty and was made president of the Royal Society.
		Pepys left his valuable library, including his diary in cipher, to his nephew John Jackson and in turn to Magdalene College, Cambridge.
		Arts: Too sexy for his diary; When dramatising the life of Samuel Pepys, Guy Jenkin found he had to tone much of it down.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/p/pepys-s1a.asp (656 words)

	Pepys' weblog - a Whatis.com definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The famous diary that Samuel Pepys (pronounced PEEPS), once the head of England's Navy, kept during the years 1660-1669 is being made available online in the form of a weblog.
		Pepys' diary has long been a primary source for understanding daily life and events in the 1660-1669 period, which includes the The Great Fire of London and the Plague.
		Because Pepys wrote his diary in a form of coded shorthand, some believe it was never intended for public view.
	whatis.techtarget.com /gDefinition/0,294236,sid26_gci872171,00.html (333 words)

	NPR : The Online Diary of Samuel Pepys
		Pepys, who lived from 1633 to 1703, began his diaries on New Year's Day in 1660.
		Pepys conveys details of his own life as well as those of the city and its people.
		Pepys was at the beginning of a fairly illustrious career as an official in the Royal Navy.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=901875 (430 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Samuel Pepys : The Unequalled Self (Vintage) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pepys, who as a teenager witnessed the execution of Charles I and who was an admirer of Cromwell, was a great believer in meritocracy.
		Pepys is a diarist of tremendous curiosity who is capable of recording his own intimate acts with a certain kind of objective impersonality.
		At times she lets Pepys speak for himself, through excerpts from his diary and letters, while at other times she recounts events in a seamless narrative fashion that, from reading the diary alone, would be more opaque and even somewhat choppy.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375725539?v=glance (3299 words)

	SAMUEL PEPYS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In this respect, as in so many others, the management of the Pepys household was very much in the mainstream of middle class Londoners of his era.
		There are a very few places in the diary where Pepys mentions Elizabeth participating in meal preparation, but they mainly appear in the first volume when it is clear that she is in the process of learning what to do and how to do it.
		Acetaria was published Pepys and Evelyn, the two most famous English diarists of the later seventeenth century, had known one another for over thirty years.
	flan.utsa.edu /conviviumartium/SamuelPepys.htm (3866 words)

	Samuel Pepys Club
		Samuel Pepys was born in February 1633 in Salisbury Court off Fleet Street in the City of London.
		His father John Pepys, a tailor, was descended from a family which had grown to some importance in the community in the fens.
		Hers was erected by Samuel Pepys soon after her death.
	www.pepys-club.org.uk (252 words)

	Pepys, Samuel -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Historians owe most of their knowledge of the London of the 1660s to Samuel Pepys, England's greatest diarist (see Diary).
		Public gardens were laid out there about 1661 and were a favourite resort of the metropolis from the 17th century, during the time of the diarists Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn, to the early 19th century, during the time of the Prince Regent,...
		E-text of The Concise Pepys by the English diarist and naval administrator Samuel Pepys.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9276356?tocId=9276356 (760 words)

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