Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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Balty enters the diary on February 8:
“At home my wife’s brother brought her a pretty black dog which I liked very well, and went away again.”Claire Tomalin notes in her biography of Pepys that this going away again without asking Sam for something was unusual.
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- Phil Gyford
on Mon 5 Dec 2005, 10:33am. Flag this
Husband of Esther: http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/5735.php
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L&M Companion states that his letters to Sam “perfectly reflect the man” in “their comic extravagance of language and feeling.”
Richard Ollard wrote:
“If Balthasar St Michel had not existed. only Dickens could have invented him.” -
Known as my wife’s brother or Her Brother, sums up the relationship.
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How old be this brother in LAW, older or younger, only found two refs: one 18 mths younger, the other 1 yr older, his behaviour suggests younger?
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Additional background information about Balty, including his much quoted and “famous” letter to Sam can be found in the article on Elizabeth at
http://www.pepysdiary.com/indepth/archive/2006/05/31/a_voice_for_elizabe.php
References in the diary
- 1660
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Feb: 8, 12
Apr: 6, 8, 9
Jun: 18
Nov: 7
- 1661
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Aug: 27
Sep: 11
- 1662
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Jan: 12
May: 11
Jun: 15
Jul: 27
Oct: 22
Nov: 12, 14, 17, 20, 29
Dec: 7, 8, 10, 16, 18
- 1663
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Jan: 9, 14, 17, 22
Feb: 12, 17
Jun: 12, 13
Nov: 20
Dec: 21, 31
- 1664
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Jan: 28
Feb: 3, 10, 22
- 1665
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Jun: 26
Jul: 25
Sep: 6, 12
Oct: 19
Dec: 4, 18
- 1666
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Mar: 25
Apr: 1, 3, 13, 17, 23, 25, 27, 28
May: 21, 22
Jun: 3, 8, 13
Jul: 16, 17, 19
Aug: 2, 3, 10
Sep: 10, 12, 13, 14, 17, 20, 24, 30
Oct: 15, 24
Nov: 1, 2, 7, 14, 19, 21, 29
Dec: 7, 8, 20, 29
- 1667
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Jan: 7, 16, 18, 26
Feb: 20, 26, 27
Mar: 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31
Apr: 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12
- 1668
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Apr: 9, 17, 22, 25, 26
May: 1, 4, 10, 11, 19, 26
Jun: 22
Jul: 13
Nov: 4, 15
Dec: 27
- 1669
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Jan: 10, 30
Feb: 10
Apr: 11