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About the Diary

Samuel Pepys (1633–1703) kept a diary for nine years, from 1660 to 1669. We present selected extracts here.

Noteworthy entries include the execution of Maj.-Gen. Harrison, the whipping of his page boy and a report of a blood transfusion between dogs performed before the Royal Society. Some entries are just plain odd; still others are confounding.

The Wikipedia has an entry on Pepys. A short essay on his life, and the historical significance of his diary, can be found at Magdalene College (from where Pepys graduated in 1654). The full text of a (bowdlerised and abridged) 1825 edition is available from Bibliomania. The Shorter Pepys is a modern, un-bowdlerized edition.