. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . ed to theTower on the false and absurd charge of betraying secrets to theFrench. This obvious falsehood did not damage Pepys reputationand he was soon again at liberty. He was elected President of theRoyal Society in 1684 and was Secretary of the Admiralty in years later, he withdrew from public affairs into a comfortableretirement at Clapham. His official career, though in a high degreeuseful, successful and upright, is of secondary interest to hisprivate life, the details of which are chronicled with meticulous full-ness
. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . ed to theTower on the false and absurd charge of betraying secrets to theFrench. This obvious falsehood did not damage Pepys reputationand he was soon again at liberty. He was elected President of theRoyal Society in 1684 and was Secretary of the Admiralty in years later, he withdrew from public affairs into a comfortableretirement at Clapham. His official career, though in a high degreeuseful, successful and upright, is of secondary interest to hisprivate life, the details of which are chronicled with meticulous full-ness in his Diary written in cypher and extending from 1659 to was bequeathed together with his large collection of books toMagdalene College. The candour with which he has set down hiseveryday actions, the variations of his health and his attire, his pettyvanities and his moral shortcomings, has rendered him more familiarto posterity than most men of much greater distinction, besidesaffording inexhaustible materials for the social history of his X 5 o >»:/) z J3 > *j *« -> 2 = u ft: > o w Q. J) z £ o X o V ) —) c^ .5 rt 60 u ? c —
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