PEP Y S ’ DIARY

Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) was the naval administrator and first secretary of the British Admiralty. Here’s what he wrote on this day in 1668.

To see Roger Pepys at his lodgings next door to Arundell- house, a barber’s.And there I did see a book, which my Lord Sandwich hath promised one to me of,“A Description of the Escuriall in Spain;” which I have a great desire to have, though I took it for a finer book when he promised it me.