Website: http://www.pepysdiary.com/
Phil Gyford
Articles
Phil Gyford has written four articles:
- Evelyn to Pepys, 26 March 1666 (26 March 2009)
- John Evelyn’s Fire of London (2 September 2009)
- Q&A with Dr Kate Loveman (14 April 2019)
- A bill of exchange (18 August 2020)
Annotations and comments
Phil Gyford has posted 772 annotations/comments since 27 December 2002.
Comments
First Reading
About Saturday 21 April 1660
Phil • Link
This info would be useful on the Oysters background page Steve. http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
About Tweaks to the site
Phil • Link
If you click a word in a diary entry you get to the Background Item for that person, place, etc. Having had a look it seems like you're right -- the Gutenberg text has no footnotes for 11th April.
I'm not sure what you mean by "bring ... footnotes forward into the background info."
About Sunday 15 April 1660
Phil • Link
There's a link in the diary entry now.
About Tweaks to the site
Phil • Link
If a footnote is about a particular person or place, etc, then the footnote is put on their Background Items page, where it will be more useful in the future. This probably accounts for the discrepancy.
About Saturday 14 April 1660
Phil • Link
I created a Background Info page for elections: http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
About Saturday 14 April 1660
Phil • Link
L&M and the 1893 edition also vary on which Pierce is referred to the very first time we come across them, 19th January 1659/60. I'm sticking with the 1893 version, although I guess we'll never know either way exactly who was where when!
About Sunday 18 March 1659/60
Phil • Link
As interesting as this conversation is it has nothing to do with today's entry.
About Edward Mountagu (Ned)
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Son of the 2nd Baron Mountagu of Boughton and Master of the Horse to the Queen Mother, according to the Latham Companion. He is the first cousin twice removed of Sir Edward Mountagu: http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
About Mr Cooke (Sandwich's servant)
Phil • Link
Cooke was a servant to Sir Edward Mountagu: http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
About Anyone fancy writing essays?
Phil • Link
As I've only had one person email me suggesting essays they'd like to write, I wouldn't hold your breath for such a section appearing any time soon!
About Grays
Phil • Link
Pepys refers to this town in Essex as Grays Market, or Grayes-market, on at least one occasion.
About Sunday 1 April 1660
Phil • Link
I imagine it's a scanning error in the diary entry.
About Saturday 31 March 1660
Phil • Link
The excised annotations have gone forever. I know it might seem like me lacking a sense of humour, but I'm trying to keep this as a useful resource for people who don't have the time to distinguish between jokes and genuine information. And I'd prefer not to have to spend my time going through deleting spurious posts. Thanks.
About John Hill (a)
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He lived in Axe Yard, and Latham's Companion says he may have been called John.
About Anyone fancy writing essays?
Phil • Link
I meant "editor" in the sense of a person who runs a magazine/ website/ journal, rather than setting any policy in place already!
About Anyone fancy writing essays?
Phil • Link
I don't think we should start with too many rules about obligatory deadlines and such. They may be required if things get out of hand, but best to keep things simple to start with (especially as this kind of thing is hard to enforce). I don't think there would be a problem with short essays, as they'd also be a good starting point for discussions.
By the way, I'm also open to having someone else act as editor for the essay section and leave it up to them to solicit, proof read, organise and post essays, if anyone fancies the task! It wouldn't require technical knowledge. Contact me if so.
About Monday 26 March 1660
Phil • Link
Can we keep the personal comments out of these annotations please Pawpaw. Thanks.
About Anyone fancy writing essays?
Phil • Link
Re: a sign up sheet.
If such a section is created then I'll try and incorporate a sign up sheet. In the mean time, please email me at phil@gyford.com if there is something you'd like to write about. Then I can judge if there's enough people to make it worthwhile (I'm sure we'd all like to read such essays, but having enough people to write them is not a foregone conclusion!).
About Anyone fancy writing essays?
Phil • Link
The 'story so far' page http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/h… is periodically updated with what's been happening in the diary (the bottom third of the page). I hope that helps.
About Pepys performance and exhibition in London
Phil • Link
You're not the only one to suggest this! As yet I don't have any scans of such things, and if I did they would need to be free of copyright for me to post them. Image copyright seems a bit more complicated than that of texts... While a particular item could be copyright-free because it's so old a museum's reproduction of it can be copyright. I'd like clarification of this...
Either way, yes images would be good.