Samuel Pepys' other diary on display in new exhibition

Major show at National Maritime Museum celebrates life of diarist and offers insight into his years posted in Tangier

The impeccably neat lines of shorthand are familiar, the voracious gathering up of fact, incident, anecdote and sightings of pretty women even more so. Samuel Pepys’s other diary, kept 14 years after the last line was ruled on his first – the most famous journal in the world – with a sad declaration that due to his failing eyesight he would never write another, goes on display next week in a major exhibition celebrating Pepys’s life and work at the Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London.

“Many people have no idea that this later diary even exists,” said Robert Blyth, co-curator of the exhibition. “He only kept it for a few months, and it’s mostly taken up with work matters – but it’s our boy all right, he cant help himself, there’s no mistaking him.”

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