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Two short entries posted today.

In the entry for 1st October, the following events are modelled:

  • Samuel and Elizabeth have a discussion about music and about singing lessons for Elizabeth.
  • Theodore Goodgroome arrives and Samuel and Elizabeth have a singing lesson with him.
  • Samuel works at the Navy Office
  • Samuel works on his papers at home.
  • Samuel has supper of bread and cheese.

For the 2nd October the following events are modelled:

  • Samuel, Thomas Fenner and Margaret Kite spend the morning appraising Margaret's inheritance.
  • The trio go to a cookshop on Bishopsgate Street for dinner.
  • Samuel buys some sack wine for Thomas Fenner and Margaret Kite at an unamed tavern. The diary does not say if the three of them drank anything there.
  • Samuel and Elizabeth take a coach to the Theatre Royal.
  • A performance of John Webster's play 'Vittoria Corombona' or 'The White Devil' at the Theatre Royal.
  • Samuel and Elizabeth take a coach home from the theatre.

New and updated topic maps:

Topic map for 1st October.

Topic map for 2nd October.

Culture in the diary.

People in the diary.

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