[Samuel Pepys, Secretary of the Admiralty and diarist.] 31 items of Pepysiana from the papers of Edwin Chappell, comprising rare printed pamphlets, booklets and offprints by him and other Pepys scholars including Sir Arthur Bryant and J. R. Tanner.

31 items from the papers of leading Pepys scholar and maritime historian Edwin Chappell (1883-1938). The collection in good general condition, with light signs of age and wear. Around half the items are by Chappell himself, including offprints (many of them bearing his Blackheath address, 41 Westcombe Park Road), pamphlets, articles, proofs, and a bibliography. Other items are papers and pamphlets by: Sir Arthur Bryant; J. R. Tanner; Sir Stephen Gaselee (bearing an autograph inscription by him); T. Wellard; Arthur Ponsonby; Allen Beville Ramsay; Edward B. Powley; H. L. O. Flecker. Also a Christmas card produced by the Admiralty (containing a printed disclaimer by Chappell) and an auction catalogue (no other copy of either item traced. There are a handful of loose enclosures, and a few autograph notes by Chappell. Ten of the items (one by Chappell) are addresses delivered at the Annual Pepys Commemoration Service at St Olave's Church. The majority of items in the collection are scarce, with few if any copies traced on COPAC. The last three items, dating from after Chappell's death, were presumably added to the collection by his executor. The following list is in rough chronological order. ONE: The Spanish Books in the Library of Samuel Pepys by Stephen Gaselee, M.A., F.S.A., C.B.E. Printed at the Oxford University Press For the Bibliographical Society, 1921. 49pp. TWO: Samuel Pepys: An Address delivered at S. Olave's, Hart Street, at the Annual Pepys Commemoration Service, on May 23rd, 1928, By The Rev. T. Wellard, B.A., B.D., Rector of the Parish and Chaplain to the Pepys Club. No copy on COPAC. THREE: Samuel Pepys: An Address delivered at S. Olave's, Hart Street at the Annual Pepys Commemoration Service on June 4th, 1929 by Mr. Arthur Ponsonby, M.P. No copy on COPAC. FOUR: Samuel Pepys as a Friend: An Address delivered at S. Olave's, Hart Street, at the Annual Pepys Commemoration Service on May 20th, 1930 By J. R. Tanner, Litt.D. (Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge). No copy on COPAC. FIVE: [auction catalogue] Catalogue of Oil Paintings, Drawings, Engravings, etc. To be sold by Auction On Monday, 4th May, 1931, at 12 noon. Hurcombs Grafton Galleries, W.1. [London] Some lots priced in pencil. Lot 55 (£24) is a portrait of Pepys by Sir Godfrey Kneller, and 56 (£12) is one of Mrs Pepys by Sir Peter Lely. No copy on OCLC WorldCat or on COPAC, and no other copy traced. Loosely inserted is a cutting of an advertisement by Hurcombs, from the Connoisseur, announcing the sale 'early in May' of the two portraits, both 'unimpeachable, coming from Samuel's descendants', and giving photographic reproductions of both portraits. SIX: Catalogue of Pepysiana belonging to Mr. Edwin Chappell exhibited at the Annual General Meeting of the Society for Nautical Research held at the Royal Naval College Greenwich 8th. July 1931. Accompanying text signed in type by Chappell, from his Blackheath address. Three copies only on COPAC. SEVEN: Samuel Pepys, The Childlike Diarist: An Address delivered at S. Olave's, Hart Street, at the Annual Pepys Commemoration Service on June 2nd, 1932. By the Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. [i.e. Allen Beville Ramsay] EIGHT: Elizabeth Pepys by Edwin Chappell. Offprint. Reprinted from the Somerset Year Book, 1933. 'With the compliments of Mr. E. Chappell'. A date is corrected in autograph. One copy on COPAC. NINE: Samuel Pepys: An Address delivered at S. Olave's Hart Street at the Tercentenary Celebration of the Birth of Samuel Pepys (February 23rd, 1633) Held at the Church on February 23rd, 1933 By the Rev. Prebendary Wellard, B.A., B.D. Rector of the Church and Chaplain to the Pepys Club. With handbill advertisement for the service loosely inserted. No copy of either item on COPAC. TEN: Samuel Pepys by Edwin Chappell. Offprint. Reprinted from The Mariner's Mirror, April 1933. 'With the Compliments of Mr. Edwin Chappell'. Loosely inserted leaf carrying family tree of 'WILLIAM PEPIS | Will proved 1519'. ELEVEN: [Magazine] Notes and Queries. 13 May 1933. Containing on pp.326-227, the article by Chappell of which the next item is an offprint. TWELVE: Notes on Some Relations of Samuel Pepys: Reprinted from "Notes & Queries" of May 13, 1933, by kind permission of the Proprietors. 'With the Compliments of . . | Mr. Edwin Chappell'. THIRTEEN: Pepys's Wedding-Day: Reprinted from "Notes & Queries" of July 1, 1933, by kind permission of the Proprietors. 'With the Compliments of . . | Mr. Edwin Chappell'. FOURTEEN: Bibliographia Pepysiana 1633 Samuel Pepys 1933 Mens cujusque, is est quisque. Signed in type at end 'Edwin Chappell | September 1933', Blackheath. 18+1pp, in grey printed wraps. FIFTEEN: [proof of last] A Short-Title Pepys Bibliography Compiled for the most part from copies in my own possession. At end: 'Edwin Chappell | August 1933' and his Blackheath address. 16pp, stapled in margin. No wraps. SIXTEEN: Samuel Pepys as a Naval Administrator: A Lecture delivered to the Hull Historical Association on the 29th September 1933. Signed in type at end 'Edwin Chappell'. Cambridge: Printed at the University Press, 1933. 23pp. SEVENTEEN: The Secrecy of the Diary: A Paper read before the Samuel Pepys Club November 24th, 1933. 'With the compliments of Mr. Edwin Chappell', Blackheath. Pencil notes by Chappell on blank reverse of title. EIGHTEEN: [Christmas card, from the Admiralty, Whitehall] Nicely-printed card, with colour photograph of portrait of Pepys, 'Reproduced by permission of Mrs. Henry Noel, daughter of Mr. Frederick Pepys Cockerell, from the original small portrait in her possession'. Admiralty, Whitehall; Christmas 1933. With printed text in copperplate, headed 'Tercentenary of Samuel Pepys, 1633-1933', mainly discussing the portrait. Loosely inserted is a printed bifolium, carrying a long text by 'Edwin Chappell', Blackheath, December 1933, beginning: 'Although an employee of the Admiralty, I am not at the Admiralty. It is therefore an act of courtesy, which I very much appreciate, that I am allowed to have copies of the enclosed card. This being the case, it is most ungracious to find fault with it, but I owe it to my reputation to dissociate myself from some of the statements made'. No other copy of either item traced. NINETEEN: Samuel Pepys: Naval Administrator: An Address delivered at S. Olave's Hart Street, at the Annual Pepys Commemoration Service on June 7th, 1934 By Mr. Edwin Chappell'. Defending Pepys ('an honest man for all times') against charges of immorality. No copy of COPAC. TWENTY: Samuel Pepys: An Address delivered at S. Olave's Hart Street, at the Annual Pepys Commemoration Service on June 25th, 1935, By Mr. Arthur Bryant, M.A., F.R.Hist.S. Depicting Pepys as 'a sinner'. No copy on COPAC. TWENTY-ONE: Eight Generations of the Pepys Family 1500-1800 By Edwin Chappell. Only 500 copies printed. 'Published by the Author', Blackheath address. 1936. 110pp. with fold-out pedigree. Loosely inserted is a duplicated family tree with note: 'Underline in red denotes OFFLEY by birth'. TWENTY-TWO: [Magazine] The Blue, published at Christ's Hospital. February 1936. Containing, pp.129-131, 'Pepys and Christ's Hospital' by 'J. F. P. T.' TWENTY-THREE: Tangier in 1683 and 1935: A Paper which was to have been read before the Samuel Pepys Club February 4th. 1936. 'With the compliments of Mr. Edwin Chappell', Blackheath. Loosely inserted is a slip of paper carrying a long autograph transcription by Chappell of a record of a petition by 'Dorothea Scott, widow of Daniel Gotherson, heir to the Younger house of Scott's Hall, Kent'. TWENTY-FOUR: Samuel Pepys 'Booklover': An Address delivered at S. Olave's, Hart Street, at the Annual Commemoration Service on May 28th, 1936, By Sir Stephen Gaselee, K.C.M.G., C.B.E., F.S.A. Inscribed at head of title to 'E. Chappell from Stephen Gaselee, July, 1936.' TWENTY-FIVE: Leviora Pepysiana: With the Compliments of Mr. Edwin Chappell December, 1936. Blackheath. TWENTY-SIX: Pepys: A Perspective: An Address delivered at S. Olave's, Hart Street, At the Annual Pepys Commemoration Service On May 31st, 1937 By Edward B. Powley, B.Litt., B.A., F.R.Hist.S. Temporarily R.N.' Three copies only on COPAC. TWENTY-SEVEN: [Magazine] Notes and Queries. 5 June 1937. Containing, pp.402-403, 'The Letters from Sir George Mackenzie to Evelyn' by E. S. de Beer. TWENTY-EIGHT: Miscellanea Pepsyiana by Edwin Chappell [Cheap Coach-Gilding; Lady Penn; The Emotion of Samuel Atkins; Lord Braybrooke and John Smith; Expensive Waste-Paper] 'With the Author's compliments.' and 'Printed by Edwin Chappell'. December 1937. TWENTY-NINE: Samuel Pepys and Christ's Hospital: An Address delivered at S. Olave's, Hart Street, at the Annual Pepys Commemoration Service on June 12th, 1939, By Mr. H. L. O. Flecker, Headmaster of Christ's Hospital. No copy on COPAC. THIRTY: [Incomplete proof of magazine article] Notes and Queries. 28 December 1940. Lacking covers. Containing, pp.455-457, 'Notes on Pepys's Tangier Papers' by Donald Dale. Pp.456-457 are blank. THIRTY-ONE: [Incomplete proof of magazine article] Notes and Queries. 1 March 1941. Lacking covers. Containing, pp.146-149, 'Samuel Pepys and Tangier' by Donald Dale. Pp.148-149 are blank.