Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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Balty enters the diary on February 8:
“At home my wife
Husband of Esther: http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/5735.php
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.
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?
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