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 771 annotations/comments since 27 December 2002.
Comments
First Reading
About Saturday 20 June 1668
Phil Gyford • Link
Not sure how that happened djc and Peter! I don't have time to investigate it properly right now, so I've removed the day of the week from the next/previous links for the time being, seeing as the rest of it is correct. (The site is slowly rebuilding as I type; should be finished soon.)
About Sunday 14 June 1668
Phil Gyford • Link
Regarding the letter that Mary mentioned which is included in L&M, this link to the page at Google Books might work...
http://books.google.com/books?id=…
It starts towards the bottom of that page, 236.
About Royal Catherine (b)
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This Royal Catherine is described in the L&M index as "2nd-rate; 70-82 guns; rebuilt 1702".
Also see the other Royal Catherine, a merchantman: http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
About Friday 1 May 1668
Phil Gyford • Link
Thanks - I've changed the link now.
About My talk about the diary as an online story
Phil Gyford • Link
Yeah, but it's not far off, and not a big deal.
About Mary Wight (a, Aunt Wight)
Phil Gyford • Link
The family tree is now corrected.
About Pepys family tree updated
Phil Gyford • Link
Thanks John, I'll look at updating the tree when I get a chance.
About Survey results
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The site is very much geared to reading the "current" day/year, so it's not that surprising that not many people start with 1660 each January. It would be possible to change the site so there's an easier way for new people to start the diary from the beginning each year, but (selfishly) I prefer this to be a one-off project that will come to an end, rather than on ongoing, rolling, never-ending thing.
About Survey results
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Yes. The site will remain online.
About Survey results
Phil Gyford • Link
Good idea James. The most popular countries from Google Analytics:
38.4% United States
35.2% United Kingdom
6.7% Canada
3.4% Australia
2.8% Germany
1.3% Netherlands
1.1% New Zealand
So, similar, but some differences, mainly that US and UK are closer in the Analytics stats.
About Quick survey
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Derek, it would probably be best to ask in the annotations of a diary entry when he makes such a journey. I'm not sure of the answer off the top of my head.
About Pepys family tree
Phil Gyford • Link
Thanks Alan -- I've now corrected the error as well as extending the family tree. More on this update here: http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/a…
About Thursday 25 July 1667
Phil Gyford • Link
Once again, as per Paul's annotation above, I've now corrected "eeriest" to "veriest" in the text.
About Wednesday 29 March 1665
Phil Gyford • Link
Re the "eeriest"/"veriest" typo mentioned above: I've corrected it in the text now.
About Monday 16 May 1664
Phil Gyford • Link
Re the discussion above about "eeriest"/"veriest": I've now corrected the text to the latter.
About Wednesday 29 January 1667/68
Phil Gyford • Link
Paul - thanks for the "eeriest"/"veriest" correction. A shame: I imagine some people could accurately be described as "eery"! I've corrected it (as I usually do with the occasional obvious typo in the Project Gutenberg text, which L&M have differently). I'll also go back and fix the previous occurrences, for future readers.
About Monday 27 January 1667/68
Phil Gyford • Link
Paul - thanks for the Kings correction. Some hasty linking on my part, now corrected.
About Diary and Encyclopedia data available
Phil Gyford • Link
Paul, thanks for the kind words.
I would like to add the comments to these files but this was kind of a first draft, which I was trying to get ready for History Hackday http://historyhackday.org/ in case anyone there would find it useful.
The best way of preserving stuff online seems to be to make many copies of it. So distributing everything like this should hopefully ensure that if this site disappears (eg, after I die!) then the data, including everyone's contributions in the form of annotations over the years, will still exist.
And thanks for the New Palace Yard correction -- that's purely my typo in the file, rather than a data problem. I've fixed it now.
About Thursday 9 January 1667/68
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Thanks Robin - I've corrected the link to the Pope so it's the correct Pope now!
About Talking about Pepys' on stage and on radio
Phil Gyford • Link
Obviously, it isn't a story in the sense of an authored, pre-planned work. I guess "narrative" is a more general term.