… the latest ideas, Pepys also put himself among the ‘ great confluence of gentlemen’ who joined J ames Harrington’s Rota Club at the Turk’s Head coffeehouse ( Diary , I, 14). This club was debating republican models of government, but it proved short lived, dissolving as the political tide turned in … – collections which became renowned enough to attract visitors to Pepys’s home. Evelyn was also a member of the informal club that Pepys hosted on Saturdays from 1692 until around 1701. Other members of the ‘Saturday’s Literati’ included …