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Balthasar St Michel ('Balty', brother-in-law)
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Pauline • Link
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.
Phil Gyford • Link
Husband of Esther: http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclopedia/5735/
Pauline • Link
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."
in Aqua Scripto • Link
Known as my wife's brother or Her Brother, sums up the relationship.
in Aqua Scripto • Link
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?
jeannine • Link
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/2006/05/31/a-...
Bill • Link
Pepys seems to have done well for his brother-in-law in later life, although, from the entries in the Diary, he does not appear to have had a high opinion of him. St. Michel was Muster Master at Deal in 1674, Storekeeper at Tangier in 1681, and Naval Commissioner at Deptford in 1685.
---Wheatley, 1899.