Dr Michael Edwards with Pepys letter book (IMAGE)

University of Cambridge

Dr Michael Edwards with Pepys letter book

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Dr Michael Edwards with Pepys Library MS 2861, one of Samuel Pepys' letter books, open at a letter written in September 1688 asking Captain Edward Stanley to sell an enslaved man in a plantation abroad.

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The Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge

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