February 23: Pepys' Nose for News (Vol. 28, pp. 285-292)
Samuel Pepys was born this day in 1632, and in today's reading, Robert Louis Stevenson writes a fine overview of Pepys' life and his diary that outlived him. Stevenson makes the case that Pepys was the original gossipmonger and that his curiosity drove him to dig up the dirt.
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