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The Diary of Samuel Pepys

Daily entries from the 17th century London diary.

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Friday 17 May 1661
All the morning at home. At noon Lieutenant Lambert came to me, and he and I to the Exchange, and thence to an ordinary over against it, where to our dinner we had a fellow …
On , by Samuel Pepys, 118 words
Thursday 16 May 1661
Up early to see whether the work of my house be quite done, and I found it to my mind. Staid at home all the morning, and about 2 o’clock went in my velvet coat …
On , by Samuel Pepys, 254 words
Wednesday 15 May 1661
With my workmen all day till the afternoon, and then to the office, where Mr. Creed’s accounts were passed.Home and found all my joyner’s work now done, but only a small job or two, which …
On , by Samuel Pepys, 135 words