Samuel Pepys

Pepys was an English naval administrator and diarist. His frank account of life from 1660 to 1669 records private affairs and major events, including the restoration of the monarchy, London’s plague and the Great Fire.

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London · 1662

Two diary passages from 1662 record Pepys’s recurring habits of early rising and office meetings. They were written in different months, and rising shifted with daylight. This intentionally sparse calendar brings together those habits without inventing a complete day.