Volume 2

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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    IX came into Dr. Rawlinson’s possession. It appears from the Doctor’s letters to Mr. Rawlins, that although Mr. Jackson’s widow, who was still living, might have satisfied him more fully concerning the col- lection which he had acquired, he declined prosecuting the inquiry, sufficiently happy in the idea of having rescued such a prize, as he himself expressed it, ^^thus et odores vendentibus.” I feel convinced my- self, that when Mr. Pepys removed to Mr. Hewer’s house at Clapham, a great portion of his familiar letters and other MSS. remained at his London residence in York Buildings, or in the custody of some friend: for he speaks, in the Correspondence, of trusting himself with the company of those Papers only which he did not object to have looked into, and Mr. Jackson was probably never aware of their existence. At all events, we must consider it as a fortunate circum- stance, that so large a mass of original MSS. should have been saved from destruction, and deposited in a place where the laudable care bestowed upon the literary treasures, and the facilities afforded to those who are desirous of examining them, refiect the highest credit on the University of Oxford and the Officers of the Bodleian Library. The remaining portion of the Correspondence has been principally made up from a large Collection of Letters, discovered by Mr. Up- cott among the archives of Mr.'Samuel Pepys Cockerell, ^he repre-