@San Diego Sarah: it's realtively straight-forward. - Find a broken link - Right click said link and select "Copy Link" - Go here: https://web.archive.org/ - There is a search box at the top of the page (it says "Enter a URL..."). Paste the link you just copied into here and press "Return" - You now see a timeline displaying the years in which this page was captured (normally multiple years). Click on the closest year to when the annotation was posted. E.g. if it was posted today in 2005, click on "2005". - You now see a calendar showing when captures were made in that year (blue dots on the calendar). - Identify the capture closest to when the link was posted (preferably before) — e.g. if the link was posted in November 2005 and there is a capture from October in the same year, that's the one we want. - Hover your mouse over the blue dot representing the desired capture. A new menu will pop out. - Click on the snapshot you want to view. There is normally only one. - That's it. The archived webpage should now open
Pauline wrote: "They (Samuel & Elizabeth) have been enjoying each other's company these days; and reading together, with her spoken French and his book-learnt French, sounds an enjoyable translation and reading exercise."
Is there any evidence that Elizabeth actually spoke French? Her father came to England ca. 1625 and Elizabeth was born in Devon in 1640. Her mother also appears to have been English.
> I have to agree with Bradford: I do think they were a fairly happy couple. The had their problems of course (being childless, Sam's pre-diary unfaithfulness, occasional quarrels), but who hasn't.
Is his unfaithfulness a documented thing? Or is that just supposition, as he and Elizabeth separated briefly pre-diary?
> In our neighbour Indo-European languages, French and German, "to be" rather than "to have" is still used as the auxilliary verb for the perfect tense of intransitive* verbs;
I'm being nitpicky here, but in French and German, the auxiliary verb "to be" (être in French, sein in German) is used to form the perfect tense for certain verbs, particularly those indicating motion or change of state.
Whether a verb is intransitive or not, is not in itself a guaranteed way to determine which auxilliary verb it uses.
E.g. "Ich habe geschlafen" (I have slept) — schlafen is intransitive "Il a couru" (He has run) — courir is intransitive
Or: "Ich bin ihm gefolgt." (I have followed him) — folgen is transitive "Il est descendu les escaliers." (He has gone down the stairs) — descendre is intransitive
I had ChatGPT summarize today's entry. Here's what it came up with:
Samuel Pepys describes a day where, despite his swollen feet, he travels to Cambridge and stays at a place called the Beare. He encounters a relative, Angier, and joins him for a good meal. He mentions a university event where officers are being elected. With borrowed academic regalia, he participates in the election, voting for various positions, including someone he recognized from his past. He's content with participating in this university activity, something he longed to do.
Later, he visits another relative, Dr. John Pepys, but couldn't find his brother Roger, who was out for work. He travels to Impington for advice from relatives regarding a family matter. Unexpectedly, Roger arrives, and they discuss the family issue. Roger advises reaching a settlement with another relative, Thomas, as legal routes wouldn’t be favorable. Despite the unsettling advice, Pepys appreciates the clarity on how to proceed, ending his day with that understanding before going to bed.
More text omitted by the Gutenberg edition: "At noon to the Exchange, where among many merchants abut provisions for the navy; and so home to dinner, where I met Mr. Hunt, his wife and child, and dined with us very merry. And after dinner I to my office with Captain Hickes, who brought my wife some shells, very pretty..."
A. Hamilton's: In keeping with this solemn Sunday occasion, I wish to introduce what is sweeping the community of the faithful here and becoming known as the Fourth Great Awakening.
8 years later, here is what deepl.com makes of the same passage:
Jermyn's second-in-command was Giles Rawlings, a man of good fortune and a heavy gambler. Howard used Dillon, a skilful, brave and honest man, and unfortunately a close friend of Rawlings. In this battle, fortune did not favor love's favorites. Poor Rawlings was killed outright, and Jermyn, pierced by three swords, was carried to his uncle's house with very few signs of life.
I found this entry a tad difficult to parse, so I had ChatGPT "modernize" the text:
I woke up early and went to my office. I noticed that many people are starting to come to me. Among them was Mr. Deane from Woolwich. He told me he would reveal the problems related to measuring timber. Additionally, he promised to provide me with a model of a ship, something I've always wanted. Later, Sir W. Batten and I had a disagreement about his clerk drafting a warrant for a Ship's Captain. I didn't accept it, so I had my own clerk prepare a different one. Sir W. Batten suggested we discuss the matter at a full board meeting, and I agreed to this. But, even though I had my own version drafted, I'll hand over the new warrant to Batten's clerk to keep the peace. However, I will still assert my rights in the matter. I ate lunch by myself and then went back to my office.
I worked until 10 o'clock at night. I had supper and then went to bed, but the disagreement with Sir W. Batten was still on my mind. Before ending the day, I spoke to Norman, Batten's assistant, to explain my side of the story.
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Third Reading
About Tuesday 25 November 1662
Ruslan • Link
A SFW version of Dirk's "Failed Armageddon Predictions" on the Wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20051…
@San Diego Sarah: it's realtively straight-forward.
- Find a broken link
- Right click said link and select "Copy Link"
- Go here: https://web.archive.org/
- There is a search box at the top of the page (it says "Enter a URL..."). Paste the link you just copied into here and press "Return"
- You now see a timeline displaying the years in which this page was captured (normally multiple years). Click on the closest year to when the annotation was posted. E.g. if it was posted today in 2005, click on "2005".
- You now see a calendar showing when captures were made in that year (blue dots on the calendar).
- Identify the capture closest to when the link was posted (preferably before) — e.g. if the link was posted in November 2005 and there is a capture from October in the same year, that's the one we want.
- Hover your mouse over the blue dot representing the desired capture. A new menu will pop out.
- Click on the snapshot you want to view. There is normally only one.
- That's it. The archived webpage should now open
About Thursday 20 November 1662
Ruslan • Link
Broken link on the WaybackMachine:
> Australian Susan: This link shows a Bank Messenger (middle person) in his official uniform.
https://web.archive.org/web/20050…
About Wednesday 12 November 1662
Ruslan • Link
> in order to the buying of some of Wood, and I bound it up in painted paper to lie by as a book for future use.
L&M have "the buying of some of [Mr.] Wood"
And from the WaybackMachine, Michael Robinson's link to marbled paper: https://web.archive.org/web/20050…
About Sunday 2 November 1662
Ruslan • Link
Pauline wrote: "They (Samuel & Elizabeth) have been enjoying each other's company these days; and reading together, with her spoken French and his book-learnt French, sounds an enjoyable translation and reading exercise."
Is there any evidence that Elizabeth actually spoke French? Her father came to England ca. 1625 and Elizabeth was born in Devon in 1640. Her mother also appears to have been English.
About Saturday 1 November 1662
Ruslan • Link
In case anyone else wonders what the references to Geraldo Rivera are all about, here's a brief summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a…
About Wednesday 29 October 1662
Ruslan • Link
The lordmayorsshow domain above has expired, so here are the links on the WayBack Machine:
History of the show: https://web.archive.org/web/20140…
Reproduction of the famous Canaletto: http://www.lordmayorsshow.org/his…
Unfortunately, images weren't archived.
About Sunday 26 October 1662
Ruslan • Link
It seems that the Ludlow mentioned above is Edmund Ludlow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edm…
About Friday 24 October 1662
Ruslan • Link
Dirk said (18 years ago):
> I have to agree with Bradford: I do think they were a fairly happy couple. The had their problems of course (being childless, Sam's pre-diary unfaithfulness, occasional quarrels), but who hasn't.
Is his unfaithfulness a documented thing? Or is that just supposition, as he and Elizabeth separated briefly pre-diary?
About Thursday 23 October 1662
Ruslan • Link
Sorry, typo.
Il est descendu les escaliers." (He has gone down the stairs) — descendre is transitive
Would love the ability to edit annotations :)
About Thursday 23 October 1662
Ruslan • Link
Sasha said:
> In our neighbour Indo-European languages, French and German, "to be" rather than "to have" is still used as the auxilliary verb for the perfect tense of intransitive* verbs;
I'm being nitpicky here, but in French and German, the auxiliary verb "to be" (être in French, sein in German) is used to form the perfect tense for certain verbs, particularly those indicating motion or change of state.
Whether a verb is intransitive or not, is not in itself a guaranteed way to determine which auxilliary verb it uses.
E.g.
"Ich habe geschlafen" (I have slept) — schlafen is intransitive
"Il a couru" (He has run) — courir is intransitive
Or:
"Ich bin ihm gefolgt." (I have followed him) — folgen is transitive
"Il est descendu les escaliers." (He has gone down the stairs) — descendre is intransitive
About Friday 10 October 1662
Ruslan • Link
I had ChatGPT summarize today's entry. Here's what it came up with:
Samuel Pepys describes a day where, despite his swollen feet, he travels to Cambridge and stays at a place called the Beare. He encounters a relative, Angier, and joins him for a good meal. He mentions a university event where officers are being elected. With borrowed academic regalia, he participates in the election, voting for various positions, including someone he recognized from his past. He's content with participating in this university activity, something he longed to do.
Later, he visits another relative, Dr. John Pepys, but couldn't find his brother Roger, who was out for work. He travels to Impington for advice from relatives regarding a family matter. Unexpectedly, Roger arrives, and they discuss the family issue. Roger advises reaching a settlement with another relative, Thomas, as legal routes wouldn’t be favorable. Despite the unsettling advice, Pepys appreciates the clarity on how to proceed, ending his day with that understanding before going to bed.
About Monday 22 September 1662
Ruslan • Link
JWB's "Weather glass" link on the WayBack Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20051…
About Wednesday 17 September 1662
Ruslan • Link
A link to the Laughing Cavalier mentioned above: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lau…
About Tuesday 1 September 1663
Ruslan • Link
A little more context.
Australian Susan: "So where was Pembleton for all those weeks when he did not turn up at church?"
Pembleton, the dancing-master, made Pepys very jealous...
https://www.pepysdiary.com/encycl…
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More text omitted by the Gutenberg edition: "At noon to the Exchange, where among many merchants abut provisions for the navy; and so home to dinner, where I met Mr. Hunt, his wife and child, and dined with us very merry. And after dinner I to my office with Captain Hickes, who brought my wife some shells, very pretty..."
Capt. William Hickes: https://www.pepysdiary.com/encycl…
About Sunday 31 August 1662
Ruslan • Link
Broken link on the WayBack Machine. Australian Susan' s "Reconstruction Photographs": https://web.archive.org/web/20071…
A. Hamilton's:
In keeping with this solemn Sunday occasion, I wish to introduce what is sweeping the community of the faithful here and becoming known as the Fourth Great Awakening.
Now goes here: https://www.spaghettimonster.org/
About Tuesday 26 August 1662
Ruslan • Link
Robert Gertz's 17th century proverbs link on the WaybackMachine: https://web.archive.org/web/20050…
TAles from the Green Valley on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?…
About Friday 22 August 1662
Ruslan • Link
Re. deaf people in Sam's time.
Museum of London resources about Pepys:
https://www.pepysdiary.com/news/2…
Deaf Londoners in the 1660s:
https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk…
About Tuesday 19 August 1662
Ruslan • Link
8 years later, here is what deepl.com makes of the same passage:
Jermyn's second-in-command was Giles Rawlings, a man of good fortune and a heavy gambler. Howard used Dillon, a skilful, brave and honest man, and unfortunately a close friend of Rawlings. In this battle, fortune did not favor love's favorites. Poor Rawlings was killed outright, and Jermyn, pierced by three swords, was carried to his uncle's house with very few signs of life.
About Monday 18 August 1662
Ruslan • Link
Broken link on the WaybackMachine.
George R's "The system he [Sam] learnt was probably a similar one to this."
https://web.archive.org/web/20050…
About Tuesday 12 August 1662
Ruslan • Link
I found this entry a tad difficult to parse, so I had ChatGPT "modernize" the text:
I woke up early and went to my office. I noticed that many people are starting to come to me. Among them was Mr. Deane from Woolwich. He told me he would reveal the problems related to measuring timber. Additionally, he promised to provide me with a model of a ship, something I've always wanted. Later, Sir W. Batten and I had a disagreement about his clerk drafting a warrant for a Ship's Captain. I didn't accept it, so I had my own clerk prepare a different one. Sir W. Batten suggested we discuss the matter at a full board meeting, and I agreed to this. But, even though I had my own version drafted, I'll hand over the new warrant to Batten's clerk to keep the peace. However, I will still assert my rights in the matter. I ate lunch by myself and then went back to my office.
I worked until 10 o'clock at night. I had supper and then went to bed, but the disagreement with Sir W. Batten was still on my mind. Before ending the day, I spoke to Norman, Batten's assistant, to explain my side of the story.