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Robert Clifford Latham CBE, MA, FBA (11 March 1912 – 4 January 1995) was Fellow and Pepys Librarian of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and joint editor of The Diary of Samuel Pepys (1970–83).

Early life and education
Latham was born on 11 March 1912 in Audley, Staffordshire. He was educated at Wolstanton Grammar School, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire (now The Orme Academy) and Queens' College, Cambridge, where he received a double First Class Honours Degree in history.

Academic career
In 1935 he was appointed an Assistant Lecturer at King's College London, and in 1939 a Lecturer. He was Reader in History (1947–1972) and Dean of Men (1965-1968)[ at Royal Holloway College, University of London, during the introduction of male undergraduates. In the academic year 1968–69 he was Professor of History at the University of Toronto.

From 1970 to 1972 he was Research Fellow, from 1972 to 1984 Fellow, and from 1984 to 1994 Hon. Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, where, as Pepys Librarian from 1972 to 1982, he had charge of the remarkable collection of books, prints and manuscripts which Samuel Pepys had left to his old college.

Beginning in 1950, he devoted the greater part of his life to the study and editing of Pepys' diary. His work, undertaken in collaboration with Professor Willam Matthews of UCLA, was eventually published as The Diary of Samuel Pepys: a new and complete transcription in nine volumes, along with two separate Index and Companion volumes, in 1970–83 Latham's second wife, Linnet, assisted him with the compilation of the Index and Companion volumes: the Index volume alone ran to some 900 pages. Latham described the edition as "the first [...] in which the entire text was printed and a comprehensive commentary published". It included the erotic passages omitted in the edition of 1893–99 by H. B. Wheatley which "could hardly have been published in Victorian England without causing offence".

The Diary was described in a Times review by Bernard Levin as "the absolutely complete and unimprovably definitive edition [...] so exceptional that it can be said to have set new standards of scholarship".

In 1985 Latham also published a single-volume edition of selections from the diaries, under the title The Shorter Pepys.

Honours
Latham was appointed a CBE in 1973; and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1982.

Personal life
Latham married Eileen Ramsay in 1939 (died 1969), with whom he had a son and daughter. In 1973 he married Rosalind ("Linnet") Birley, who died in 1990 (suicide). His son is Sir David Latham QC, who has served as Chairman of the Parole Board for England and Wales.[7]

Latham died on 4 January 1995 in Cambridge, aged 82.

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List of Articles:

The Admiralty, 1., Art and Architecteur 10., Books 34., The Chatham Chest 59., Christenings 62., Christmas and Twelfth Night 61., Coffe- Houses.,The Diary and Related Manuscripts.89, Dockyards.92, Dress and Personal Appearance.98, Drink.104, The Ditch Wars. 110, The Excheqeur.124, Finances.130, The Great Fire.138, Food.143, Funerals.152, Gunpowder Plot Day.163, Health.172, Health-A Psychoanalyst's Vieuw.176, Household: Domestic Srvants.193, Language.217, Music.258., The Navy. 282, The Navy Board.291, The Navy Office.298, The pepys Family.314, The Plague.328, Plays.337, Postal Services.343, Privy Seal Offices. 346, Religion.350, The Royal Exchange.357, The Royal Fishery.358, The Royal Society.361, Sabbath Obersvance.370, Science.381. Scientific Instruments.390, Tangier.407, Taverns, Inn and Eating-Houses. 416, Theatre. 431, Travel.448, Trinity House. 457, The Wardrobe. 467, Weather.470, Weddings.472, Westminster Palace.473, Whitehall Palace. 477,

Volume IX 1668-1669 GBP 8.50.

Samuel Pepys FRS. 23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English diarist and naval administrator. He served as administrator of the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament and is most famous for the diary he kept for a decade. Pepys had no maritime experience, but he rose to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under both King Charles II and King James II through patronage, diligence, and his talent for administration. His influence and reforms at the Admiralty were important in the early professionalisation of the Royal Navy.[2]

The detailed private diary that Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 was first published in the 19th century and is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period. It provides a combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War, and the Great Fire of London.

Samuel Pepys FRS .23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English diarist and naval administrator. He served as administrator of the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament and is most famous for the diary he kept for a decade. Pepys had no maritime experience, but he rose to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under both King Charles II and King James II through patronage, diligence, and his talent for administration. His influence and reforms at the Admiralty were important in the early professionalisation of the Royal Navy.[2]

The detailed private diary that Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 was first published in the 19th century and is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period. It provides a combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War, and the Great Fire of London.

Volume Six 1665 Bell GBP7.95. 1974.

Samuel Pepys FRS . 23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English diarist and naval administrator. He served as administrator of the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament and is most famous for the diary he kept for a decade. Pepys had no maritime experience, but he rose to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under both King Charles II and King James II through patronage, diligence, and his talent for administration. His influence and reforms at the Admiralty were important in the early professionalisation of the Royal Navy.[2]

The detailed private diary that Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 was first published in the 19th century and is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period. It provides a combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War, and the Great Fire of London.

Volume III 1662.

Samuel Pepys began his celebrated diary in 1660, at the age of 26, as a young and ambitious secretary. Due to his support of the king's restoration, he soon found himself in an influential position in the Royal Navy's administration. He was to keep the diary for nearly ten years, until his eye sight failed, and in it he would record many of the great events of the age, such as the outbreak of plague and the Great Fire of London, as well as many smaller, domestic and personal happenings. Although written in shorthand and principally for his own personal remembrance and pleasure, it is clear at times that Pepys had one eye on posterity. It is a large work, conveniently divided into one volume per year; here is the first, based on the first complete edition, that of Henry B. Wheatley, originally published in 1893.

Dit boek is, met toestemming van Master en Fellows van Magdalene College, Cambridge, bewerkt naar de copyright Wheatley-editie van Pepys Diary, uitgegeven door G. Bell & Sons Ltd, London.½

This selection is from the new and complete transcription of the Diary of Samuel Pepys edited by Robert Latham and William Matthews, publised by Bell & hyman Ltd.

Robert Guy Howarth (1906-1974), scholar, literary critic and poet, was born on 10 May 1906 at Tenterfield, New South Wales, second son of native-born parents Arthur Howarth, schoolteacher, and his wife Lucy Elizabeth, née Newling. Guy was educated at Fort Street Boys' High School, Sydney, under A. J. Kilgour and George Mackaness, and was school captain in 1924. He was aged 19 when he married 16-year-old Sylvia Marjorie Beryl Smith, a stenographer, on 27 June 1925 at St Stephen's Anglican Church, Newtown; they were to have three sons before she divorced him in September 1948. He graduated from the University of Sydney (B.A., 1929) with first-class honours, the university medal in English and the Wentworth travelling fellowship. A non-collegiate student attached to St Catherine's Society at the University of Oxford (B.Litt., 1931), he specialized in seventeenth-century poetry. By the time he was appointed lecturer at the University of Sydney in 1933, he had collected, edited and published in London Minor Poets of the 17th Century (for Everyman's Library, 1931), Letters and the Second Diary of Samuel Pepys (1932) and Letters of George Gordon, 6th Lord Byron (1933).

As a teacher, Howarth was quick to recognize and praise the work of students and colleagues, generous in providing opportunities for their advancement and conscientious in his correspondence. His formal lectures read well in print, but were rather too packed to assimilate easily. In later life he was to persuade colleagues to join him in readings of scenes from plays under discussion. He raised some conservative eyebrows in Sydney by introducing his classes to modernist or contemporary writers, including Hopkins, Eliot, the Sitwells, Joyce, Faulkner and Auden, and to Australian writers, among them Joseph Furphy, Shaw Neilson, Kenneth Slessor and Christina Stead. He invited students to convivial meetings in his rooms at the university, and entertained at his modest home in Young Street, Neutral Bay, where visiting writers from overseas, such as Stephen Spender, rubbed shoulders with Slessor, Robert FitzGerald, Douglas Stewart, Miles Franklin and Hal Porter.

Abridged from the complete cpoyright text edited by Henry B, Wheatley.
Four Maps of London in the Sixsteen-Sixties by A.E. Taylor½

Samuel Pepys begon zijn dagboek op 1 januari 1660. Negen jaar lang heeft hij het vervolgens van dag tot dag nauwkeurig bijgehouden totdat zijn slechte ogen hem dwongen er mee op te houden. Hij schreef zijn openhartige bekentenissen in een geheimschrift dat pas in het begin van de vorige eeuw werd ontcijferd.

Heleen ten Holt stelde hieruit een boek samen dat op zo breed en gevarieerd mogelijke wijze de mens, de bon-vivant en de puritein Pepys aan het woord liet. In dit dagboek, dat ook 'n boeiend relaas geeft van gebeurtenissen aan het hof van Karel II, komt Pepys in de eerste plaats te voorschijn als een bijzonder vitaal mens, voor wie er ook een prima leven denkbaar was zonder de boeken waarnaar hij zo dikwijls op jacht is: met smakelijk eten bijvoorbeeld, met vrouwen, met muziek, met theater, met gezellige kout.

Hij beschrijft letterlijk alles wat hij meemaakt, vanaf zijn moeilijkheid met de stoelgang tot wat de koning tegen hem, plichtsgetrouw en bekwaam ambtenaar aan het Navy Office, zegt. Hij had een sterk preutse inslag - hij groeide op in de tijd van Cromwell en de puriteinen - maar zijn vlees bleef voortdurend zwak.

Pepys' dagboek levert ook een schitterend stuk maatschappelijke reportage van de zeventiende eeuw. Alles komt er in aan de orde: topografie van Londen, wetenschappen, kunst, cultuur, financiën, politiek, folklore, de roemruchte London Fire, de Great Plague, de restauratie van Karel II en de zeeoorlogen met de Republiek.

Pepys' vaak zo incoherente, weinig geacheveerde, abrupte notities blijven door de geest van eerlijkheid, spontaniteit en ironische ijdelheid die ze beheerst zalige lectuur, al moet men ze genieten als jenever: bij teugjes dus.-NRC/Handelsblad.

Van deze 3 delen uit de Everyman's library heb ik van deel 1 het begin, de jaren 1660 en 1661 gelezen. Gedurende deze 2 jaren schrijft Pepys vooral over de mensen die hij ontmoet, wat hij eet en hoe veel alles kost. Zijn meest voorkomende dagafsluiting luidt: and so to bed.
Zijn dagboek is bij lange na niet zo interessant als dat van zijn Nederlandse collega Hans Warren. Toch is dit dagboek wereldberoemd, waarschijnlijk heeft dit minder te maken met Pepys als schrijver dan wel dat het op zich heel bijzonder is dat er zo'n oud dagboek bewaard is gebleven. Wat mij betreft geen aanrader!

Deciphered by Rev. J. Smith A.M. from the original shorthand manuscript.