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Your excellent June 9 article on flying saucers must be a great blow to the credulous -particularly the reminder that citizens were seeing mysterious sky ships as early as 1897. An even earlier notice comes from observant Samuel Pepys. In his diary for April 26, 1664, Pepys writes: "Home to...
Agate shrugged and made note of it in Ego-the compendious, perennial diary which would enable him, he hoped, "to take my place beside Pepys." "Something has always turned up," he told Ego, "and something will turn up now." Four days later, a heart attack swept 69-year-old Diarist...
"The English," he once wrote, "instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it." Sure of his own talent, James Evershed Agate (rhymes with plague it) saw no reason to be shy about it; the English took him on his own bumptious terms. Though no Pepys...
According to Pepys . . .
If was up to Samuel Pepys, however, first to record a more contemporary view of this holiday. Sam celebrated the day in 1663 with the following entry in his diary: