January 1st (New-Yeare's Day). Called up by five o'clock, by my order,by Mr. Tooker, who wrote, while I dictated to him, my business ofthe Pursers; and so, without eating or drinking, till three in theafternoon, and then, to my great content, finished it. So to dinner,Gibson and he and I, and then to copying it over, Mr. Gibson reading andI writing, and went a good way in it till interrupted by Sir W. Warren'scoming, of whom I always learne something or other, his discourse beingvery good and his brains also. He being gone we to our business again,and wrote more of it fair, and then late to bed.
[This document is in the British Museum (Harleian MS. 6287), and is entitled, "A Letter from Mr. Pepys, dated at Greenwich, 1 Jan. 1665-6, which he calls his New Year's Gift to his hon. friend, Sir Wm. Coventry, wherein he lays down a method for securing his Majesty in husbandly execution of the Victualling Part of the Naval Expence." It consists of nineteen closely written folio pages, and is a remarkable specimen of Pepys's business habits.—B. There are copies of several letters on the victualling of the navy, written by Pepys in 1666, among the Rawlinson MSS. in the Bodleian.]
2nd. Up by candlelight again, and wrote the greatest part of my businessfair, and then to the office, and so home to dinner, and after dinnerup and made an end of my fair writing it, and that being done, set twoentering while to my Lord Bruncker's, and there find Si