Volume 1

Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq. F.R.S. : secretary to the Admiralty in the reigns of Charles II. and James II. Comprising his diary from 1659 to 1669, deciphered by the Rev. John Smith, from the original short-hand MS. in the Pepysian Library, and a selection from his private correspondence / Edited by Richard, Lord Braybrooke.

  • Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703.
Date:
1825
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Credit: Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq. F.R.S. : secretary to the Admiralty in the reigns of Charles II. and James II. Comprising his diary from 1659 to 1669, deciphered by the Rev. John Smith, from the original short-hand MS. in the Pepysian Library, and a selection from his private correspondence / Edited by Richard, Lord Braybrooke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    all my heart concerned for her doing well, both for her own sake and yours, & a great many more besides myself. I hope to be in London to morrow, & have appointed my messeng' to meet mee there with y'= newes he shall have to bring me from you, which I hope will be of her amendment. To this lett mee add, that I have beene lately called upon afresh by him who gave me formerly occasion of remembring ]VL Cowes, & if M Cowes be still under y® same circumstances he was, lett him (if you please) adventure y® trouble of letting me see him once more as soone as he pleases. But I being now mostly here, it may be easiest for him to come to mee when I am in towne, which probably may be to morrow about noone, and Wednesday all y® morning; y® character you have heretofore given me of his modest diligence & sobriety, as well as his other capacitys, greatly disposing mee to serve him, especially where I may serve a freend allsoe, whom those virtues will bee valued. I am, with all faythfullnesse, Your most humble Serv‘, S. Pepys. Ir U. orig. MR PEPYS TO MR EVELYN. HoNo'° Aug. 30, 1689. I SHALL never bee anxious ab' pardon for not doing what I ought, where what I ought is what I can’t; and such is y® giving a due answer to y® inestimable honour & favour of your letter of this day, and so much y® less estimable, by that alone for which you would censure it— its length; as containing, in lesse than 5 pages, what would cost me 5 volumes, reading from any other hand but Evelyn’s: and yet some answer you shall in time have to it, & y® best I can give you, namely, by endeavouring to have no syllable of it unpractised, that you have had y® goodnesse to teach mee in it, & lyes within y® reach of my pate & purse to execute.