Samuel Pepys and the World He Lived In

Chapter 22: APPENDIX III. PEPYS’S MANUSCRIPTS AT OXFORD

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The author assembles biographical information, diary excerpts, and contemporary documentation to portray Samuel Pepys’s life, career, and the social milieu of his era. Chapters follow his background before the diary, his daily activities and observations during its composition, and his later years, and address specific topics such as his time in Tangier, his books and collections, and the fabric of Restoration London. Separate sections examine his relations and acquaintances, naval and court service, public figures, social manners, and entertainments. A concluding discussion is followed by appendices offering portraits, manuscript inventories, play lists, and other documentary material that illuminate the narrative.

APPENDIX III.

PEPYS’S MANUSCRIPTS AT OXFORD.

Chapter V. p. 82.—Pepys’s manuscripts in the Rawlinson Collection at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, are very fully described in the “Oxford Catalogue of Manuscripts,” and the Rev. W. D. Macray’s Index to the same. Besides the letters from various persons which are noted further on in the list of Pepys’s correspondents, are a large number of copies of letters from Pepys himself. The other papers are described as (1) Naval and Official, (2) Personal and Miscellaneous. In the first class are various notes on the state of the navy at different periods, questions respecting shipbuilding, memorials, minutes, and reports. In the second class are accounts of expenses, bonds, inventories, lists of books, &c.; and in both classes are papers of considerable interest for the purpose of elucidating the particulars of Pepys’s life. Besides the above there are papers relating to other members of the family.