A letter by Mrs Knipp with "Barbary Allen" written by her, sent to Pepys, and in the posession of Pepys on Jan 5th 1666.


Diary of Samuel Pepys, January/February 1665/66

Jan 5th 1666
... We had no time to talk of particulars, but leave it to another day, and I away to Cornhill to expect my Lord Bruncker's coming back again, and I staid at my stationer's house, and by and by comes my Lord, and did take me up and so to Greenwich, and after sitting with them a while at their house, home, thinking to get Mrs. Knipp, but could not, she being busy with company, but sent me a pleasant letter, writing herself "Barbary Allen." ...

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