Letter 0548

Pepys believes the East India Company should be thanked in the next Philosophical Transactions. He informs Sloane a personal letter should arrive soon. Pepys offers his nephew’s services to rewrite a fair copy of the letter which can then be presented to him ‘& this matter finally closed.’ Pepys was a naval official who is best known as a result of the publication of his diaries, which recount the various political and social happenings of his day (C. S. Knighton, Pepys, Samuel (16331703), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21906, accessed 19 June 2013]).