At home all the morning; and in the afternoon all of us at the office, upon a letter from the Duke for the making up of a speedy estimate of all the debts of the Navy, which is put into good forwardness. I home and Sir W. Pen to my house, who with his children staid playing cards late, and so to bed.
home office
a fort for my child
playing late
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 28 December 1661.