Evidence: | 'all morning at the office finishing my letter to Sir Rob Brookes, which I did with great content; and yet at noon, when I came home to dinner, I read it over again after it was sealed and delivered to the messenger, and read it to my clerks who dined with me, and there I did resolve upon some alteration and caused it to be new writ' |
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Century: | 1600-1699 | ||||||||||
Date: | 25 Nov 1667 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | afternoon: at noon, dinner time | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London location in dwelling: at home |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Samuel Pepys |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 23 Feb 1633 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Clerk of the Acts, Admiralty |
Religion: | Church of England |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
his clerks from the Admiralty |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Samuel Pepys |
Title: | [letter to Sir Robert Brookes] |
Genre: | Law, correspondence |
Form of Text: | Manuscript: Letter |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 14873 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Samuel Pepys | |
Editor: | Robert Latham | |
Title: | The diary of Samuel Pepys | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1970 | |
Vol: | 8 | |
Page: | 546 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham (ed.), The diary of Samuel Pepys (London, 1970), 8, p. 546, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=14873, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
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