A new Pepys walk: Greenwich http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2012/07/18/13885.php Glyn Thomas has previously worked on two walks which have been posted...
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Phil Gyford
gyford
Jul 18, 2012 2:47 pm
Slipping in under the wire, we have... In-depth Article: The Bagwells by John Phillips http://www.pepysdiary.com/indepth/archive/2012/07/18/the_bagwells.php ...
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terry foreman
thforeman
Jul 18, 2012 3:06 pm
"They’re worth a read even if you’re nowhere near London!" Well-said, Phil! Great work, Glyn!. Terry ... "They’re worth a read even if you’re nowhere...
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terry foreman
thforeman
Jul 24, 2012 8:19 pm
... From: rb <broroger@...> Date: Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:53 PM Subject: QM historians discover medieval banking records hidden under coats of arms To:...
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terry foreman
thforeman
Jul 26, 2012 8:19 pm
"This month, 323 years ago, an English biographer scribbled notes to another scholar -- or rather, he scribbled and kept on scribbling. By the time he wrote on...
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Linda Faucheux
faucheux33
Jul 27, 2012 1:56 am
Thanks, Terry. Nothing new under the sun. . . . ... From: terry foreman <terry.foreman@...> Subject: [pepysdiary] The 17th-Century Paper Social...
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terry foreman
thforeman
Aug 9, 2012 5:26 pm
'Dreamland': Open Your Eyes To The Science Of Sleep by Maureen Corrigan <http://www.npr.org/people/4529709/maureen-corrigan> ...
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MARY
marykmcintyr...
Aug 10, 2012 4:20 pm
This is excellent. The last time I was able to suit myself about sleep habits was in my last year of high school. Due to a lengthy teachers' strike, we had to...
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Susan Thomas
susan.thomas@...
Aug 11, 2012 12:48 am
Pepys did not seem to mention this in the Diary, but then he did not tend to mention the normal patterns of life, just the unusual things. He does, however,...
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Eric Mills
theforestofdean
Aug 11, 2012 5:40 pm
Hello Everybody, I'm still plugging away at the (work in progress) 'on-line' version of 'that Other Diary.' Samuel, of course, was a great personal friend of ...
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terry foreman
thforeman
Aug 11, 2012 7:41 pm
Eric, Thanks for that sneak-peek! Terry Foreman...
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Linda Faucheux
faucheux33
Aug 11, 2012 10:54 pm
Thanks, Eric. Just came upon this mention of the writings of Evelyn and Pepys in Thomas Wolfe's Of Time and the River (Scribner's 1935 ed., p. 587),...
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Eric Mills
theforestofdean
Aug 12, 2012 5:37 pm
Thanks for the 'heads up' on Thomas Wolfe "Of Time and the River" My grateful thanks, too, to Yale University and the Rockerfeller Foundation for enabling me...
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terry foreman
thforeman
Aug 12, 2012 6:13 pm
Chris Riddell: What I'm thinking about ... a new era for illustration 'In the digital future, texts will be annotated visually, animated and illustrated like...
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Susan Thomas
susan.thomas@...
Aug 12, 2012 9:32 pm
This edition of Pepys - Everybody's Pepys - was my introduction to the Diary. My parents owned this work. I remember many of the illustrations embued with...
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Sulamith Potter
suliepotter
Aug 12, 2012 10:16 pm
Yes, this edition was my introduction to the diary, too. I found a copy at a library sale, and was enchanted with the drawings. Sulie From: Susan Thomas Sent:...
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Linda Faucheux
faucheux33
Aug 13, 2012 1:06 am
Caveat: The mention quoted is the only reference to Evelyn and Pepys in the entire 912 pages of Wolfe's opus, but parts of the book (which carries forward the...
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Eric Mills
theforestofdean
Aug 13, 2012 9:37 am
Linda, As I said ... in my 'Good Reads' directory ... and there it stays along with other favourites ... including ... oh dear ... my secret is out ... 'Wind...
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Eric Mills
theforestofdean
Aug 13, 2012 3:24 pm
Hello Everybody, A biggish 'oops' in my posting about the John Evelyn entry for the 2nd October, 1685. Paul Chapin (an interested 'Lurker' - who may well be...
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Richard Histon
rhiston
Aug 14, 2012 9:38 am
Hi Terry, I've noticed another illustrated version on UK ebay, 10 volumes. I won't be buying it but not a bad starting price for 10 volumes. I have no idea if...
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terry foreman
thforeman
Aug 15, 2012 6:53 pm
BRYAN, Texas (AP) — More than three centuries ago, a French explorer's ship sank in the Gulf of Mexico, taking with it France's hopes of colonizing a vast...
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Susan Thomas
susan.thomas@...
Aug 15, 2012 9:35 pm
What a fascinating story! And what a wonderful exhibit this is going to be. I have just been reading book about the failed colony on Roanoke Island, NC - it...
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MARY
marykmcintyr...
Aug 16, 2012 2:39 pm
um, remember the Mars probe that crashed b/c the guy responsible for calculating the landing co-ords did so in Imperial, but the rest of the project crew were...
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terry foreman
thforeman
Aug 16, 2012 10:19 pm
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/08/15/4727210/350th-mr-punchs-party-a-look-at.html#storylink=cpy...
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Eric Mills
theforestofdean
Aug 19, 2012 5:28 pm
Hello - in John Evelyn's Diary, I'm slowly getting there, the entry (a largish one) for 7th October, 1688 contains a long word in Greek (it may be ancient...
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IAN GREENWOOD
ian74889
Aug 19, 2012 6:22 pm
'Allotrio' is 'something foreign' and 'episkopein' is 'to oversee'. I am no Greek scholar, but at a guess Evelyn seems to be excusing himself for presuming to...
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Eric Mills
theforestofdean
Aug 19, 2012 10:31 pm
Thank you all for the many responses, both direct and via this group. It was most instructive and the result is now annotated ... I learned a few things on the...
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pepyspal
Aug 22, 2012 3:44 pm
I followed a small footnote in the above book (Arthur Bryant, 1947). He refers to Col. John Scott, one of Pepys accusers. There is a book at...
Farewell to Pepys. After 40 years of friendship, the bond was broken by Samuel's death on 26th May, 1703. The friendship had survived the deeply troubled times...
