Samuel Pepys [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… Pepys’s clerk, continued to work with and sometimes live with Pepys. In his old age Pepys shared Hewer’s fine home in Clapham, and he described Hewer in his will as having behaved like a ‘son’. 5 5 . London, The National Archives, PROB … would go on to form the basis of the British Museum). Eventually Pepys’s ill health and his move to Hewer’s home in Clapham put an end to the gatherings and curtailed visits. He and Evelyn, each suspecting death was near, consoled each …
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