“. . . I am full of the impression left upon me by
the sight of that unrivall’d library left by Pepys to Magdalene College [Cambridge]. I believe the exquisite
charms that are to be found in it are, to this day, almost unknown to the
world. You remember Pepys’s
memoirs (published by Ld.
Braybrooke, who is Hereditary Visitor and appoints the Master of
this college), the manuscript of which I had in my hand; but these are almost
trash compared to other contents of this library. There are 5 folio volumes of
prints, almost from the origin of printing, being the portraits of every royal
or public man, woman or child down
| 1834.] | CREEVEY’S NEW POST. | 281 |
