Took physique betimes and to sleep, then up, it working all the morning. At noon dined, and in the afternoon in my chamber spending two or three hours to look over some unpleasant letters and things of trouble to answer my father in, about Tom’s business and others, that vexed me, but I did go through it and by that means eased my mind very much. This afternoon also came Tom and Charles Pepys by my sending for, and received of me 40l. in part towards their 70l. legacy of my uncle’s.
Spent the evening talking with my wife, and so to bed.
time to sleep
the work I spend hours in
my father and others
go through my mind
and I receive their legacy
of evening
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 25 May 1664.