Excerpt from The Diary of Samuel Pepys M.A., F. R. S, Vol. 9: Transcribed From the Shorthand Manuscript in the Pepysian Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge by the Rev. Mynors Bright M.A. Late Fellow and President of the College; Index There are two great difficulties which the indexer has to face. The first is, that the consulters of a book consisting of so miscellaneous a contents as this one, come to it with such different tastes and with such different objects that it is almost impossible to please them all. The second is inherent to the compilation of the Index itself. A diary such as this presents special pitfalls for the most careful indexer, because Pepys wrote for himself alone, and he knew to whom he referred, but we can never be sure that people with the same name were actually the same persons. To instance one case out of many, Pepys constantly met two Mrs. Turners, one his cousin, and the other the wife of a clerk of the Navy Office. In many references there are circumstances that help us to decide which one is referred to, but in others we can never be quite sure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.