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FEBRUARY 2008:
Thomas Chaloner blog, February
The second posting in Susanna Gregory's Thomas Chaloner blog is now available
to read on the Little, Brown website.
It begins:
Restoration London, February
MAfter the freezing days of January this month has seen days of blazing sunshine and temperate nights, for once making me look kindly on the ill-fitting window in my lodgings. After weeks of adding all my outdoor garb to my bed-coverings, the draught through the cracks in the rotting frame is welcome. I spotted some lengths of new timber in the yard. No doubt my landlord will now repair the damage, and I shall sweat through sleepless nights instead of shivering.....
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JANUARY 2008
Thomas Chaloner blog
Susanna Gregory has started a Thomas Chaloner blog on the website of her
publishers Little, Brown Book Group.
The first in the series of monthly postings begins as follows:
Restoration London, January 15th
My resolution to keep a journal of daily events has not begun well. A remark by Mr Pepys, recently appointed Clerk of the Acts to the Navy Board, whilst we shared a jug of wine in the tavern close by Axe Yard, made me realise that it is up to the ordinary citizen to truthfully record what occurs in our time. If such matters are solely left to the denizens of the Court or of Parliament, facts will simply be skewed to paper over the cracks in their reputations, omitting events which would otherwise show how their dishonesty and incompetence blighted the lives of those they presumed to rule. Nor, he added, should such a task be left solely to the pious social climber who would overlook the faults and foibles of those they wished to impress, and who would be dishonest with their own motivations. I took this to be a reference to Mr Evelyn, an erudite, pleasant gentleman, but one with an irritatingly ingratiating manner....
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