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Wren, did correct his copy of my letter, which the Duke of York hath signed in my very words, without alteration of a syllable. See July 24th, ante, and August 29th, Post. In the Pepysian Collection are the following: An Inquisition, by his Royal Highness the Duke of York, when Lord High Admiral of England, into the Management of the Navy, 1668, with his Regulations thereon, fol. Also Mr.
For a number of years, we, being diligent in our business, stood and waited before kings in a celebrated book shop. "We know from personal experience that a slight tale, a string of gossip, will often alter our entire conception of a personality," from a contemporary book review. This, the high office of tittle-tattle, is what we have in our eye. We are Walpolian, Pepysian.
But no allusion to it was left, and if it had not been for the ingenuity and perseverance of a single scholar the dusty volumes would still lie unread in some top shelf of the Pepysian Library. Publicity, then, was not his object. What could it have been? The only alternative is reference and self-information.
All the afternoon with my Lord, going up and down the town; at seven at night he went home, and there the principal Officers of the Navy, From a MS. in the Pepysian Library in Pepys's own handwriting. His Royal Highness James, Duke of York, Lord High Admiral. Sir George Carteret, Treasurer. Sir William Batten, Surveyor. Samuel Pepys, Esq., Clerk of the Acts. Peter Pett, Esq.
A more agreeable memory of this year was a visit to Petworth, where, as he records, with Pepysian naivete, 'Lord Egremont has placed me in one of the most magnificent bedrooms I ever saw. It speaks more of what he thinks of my talents than anything that ever happened to me.... What a destiny is mine!
Wren, did correct his copy of my letter, which the Duke of York hath signed in my very words, without alteration of a syllable. See July 24th, ante, and August 29th, Post. In the Pepysian Collection are the following: An Inquisition, by his Royal Highness the Duke of York, when Lord High Admiral of England, into the Management of the Navy, 1668, with his Regulations thereon, fol. Also Mr.
It used to annoy us to hear Karl Rosner referred to as "the Kaiser's Boswell." Horace Traubel was perhaps a Boswell; but Rosner never. It is pleasant to know that Boswell was not merely a kind of animated note-book. He was a droll, vain, erring, bibulous, warm-hearted creature, a good deal of a Pepys, in fact, with all the Pepysian vices and virtues. Mr.
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