the Great Fire
Two enquiring minds
Samuel Pepys, wrote John Evelyn, was ‘universally beloved, hospitable, generous, learned in many things’ and ‘skilled in music’. John Evelyn,…
The joy of an unexpurgated Pepys — without the bother of reading it oneself
We all know about Samuel Pepys witnessing the Great Fire in his Diaries, but how many have read the definitive…