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Historians owe most of their knowledge of the London of the 1660s to Samuel Pepys, England's
greatest diarist. He began his diary in 1660, the year that Puritan rule ended and the period called the
Restoration began. After the sobriety, of the Puritan years, Londoners now took great pleasure in
attending the reopened theatres, where they enjoyed the comedies of John Dryden and other
Restoration dramatists. Pepys enjoyed London life to the full, and he wrote down practically
everything he thought, felt, saw or heard. He described the city's churches, theaters and taverns, its
streets and homes, and even the clothes that he and his wife wore. Many momentous, happenings took
place during the years covered in Pepys's diary. He remained in London during the Great Plague of
1664-65, and he also saw the Great Fire of 1666. He numbered among his friends many of the wellknown
people of the time, including the scientist Isaac Newton, the architect Christopher Wren and
the poet John Dryden. Owing to failing eyesight, Pepys regretfully closed his diary in 1669. Pepys
wrote his diary in Thomas Shelton's system of shorthand, but he complicated the more confidential
passages by using foreign languages and a cipher of his own invention. Upon his death, along with
other books and papers, the diary went to his old college at Cambridge. It was not deciphered until
1822. In addition to its historical significance, the diary holds a high place in literature. The style is
vigorous, racy and colloquial. Because he intended it to be read only by himself, Pepys was
completely honest. An incomplete edition appeared in 1825, and the entire diary, except for a few
passages deliberately omitted by the editors, was available by 1899. An edition completed in 1983
includes the entire work.