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Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, With a Life and Notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke, Deciphered, With Additional Notes, by M. Bright
Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys With a Life and Notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke Deciphered With Additional Notes by M Bright Author:Samuel Pepys General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1875 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: ILLUSTRATIONS. Vol. I. I'AGE PORTRAIT Of Samuel Pepys . . Frontispiece Facsimile Of Shorthand And Of Pepys's Usual Handwriting .... x Silver Cup Presented By Pepys To The Cloth- Workers' Company xxxvii Major-general Lambert 67 V. Hewer . 163 Alderman Backwell 149 Sir S. Morland 176 'lord Sandwich . . 314 Sir Harry Vane 464 PREFACE. I was obliged three or four years ago, owing to ill health, to leave Cambridge, a college friend said to me, " You may as well decipher afresh Pepys' Diary." I followed his suggestion, and I have deciphered the original MS. to the best of my ability. I have twice carefully gone over every word in the original short-hand. I have added about one third of matter never yet published, and at the end of each volume I have made a list of the principal mistakes in the former editions, so that any one who chooses to take the trouble may compare the corrections with the mistakes, and form his own opinion upon them. I have not been able to avail myself of Lord Braybrooke's additional notes in the editions of 1848 and 1854, as the copyright of those editions has not yet expired. I have, however, endeavoured, as far as I can, to supply the deficiency by notes of my own, especially in explanation of any old custom or obsolete word. I have left Lord Braybrooke's fcl notes to the original edition unaltered, except in a few cases where they were unnecessary, owing to the correction of mistakes in the Diary; and to my own additional notes I have affixed my initials. " Mr. Pips his Diary" immortalized by Thackeray, is so well known and his name is now such a " household ...« less