Samuel Pepys [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… Mountagu (later to become the Earl of Sandwich). In the diary’s first pages, Pepys noted that the genteel persona he presented did not reflect reality: he was ‘ esteemed rich, but endeed very poor’ ( Diary , I, 2). In 1660, much of his …
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