The Diary of Samuel With Selections from His Correspondence, An An Introduction to Each Volume, Vol. 5 (Classic Reprint): Secretary to the Admiralty ... Original Short-Hand Ms. in the Pepysian Li - Softcover

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College Library H47 v. 5INTRODUCTION. Pepys s Diary ends with the end of May in the year 1669. This volume ends with the 27th of November, 1668, and one more volume will complete the record. The reason for ceasing to carry on the Diary was, that failure of eyesight to which in this volume there are many references. As on the second of May, to spare my eyes, home, and played on my pipes, and so to bed ;on the ninth of May, my head and eyes out of order, the first from my drinking wine at dinner, and the other from my much work; on the seventeenth, made my boy read to me, and so to bed; on the twenty-third of June, to Dr. Turberville about my eyes, and on the twenty-ninth, did receive a direction for some physic, and also a glass of something to drop into my eyes: on the following day, eyes bad, but not worse, only weary with working .. .I am come to that I am not able to read out a small letter, and yet my sight good for the little while I can read as ever it was, I think; on the fifth of July, about four in the morning took four pills of Dr.
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