Item 7 - Postcard from G. C. Moore Smith to R. B. McKerrow

(Sheffield.)—Refers to Pepys’s use of the expression ‘my lord’, in illustration of its use by Nashe.

(Dated 4 Oct. Postmarked at Sheffield on 4 Oct. 1909.)

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4 Oct.

I think you somewhere in Nashe raise the question about the use of the expression ‘my lord.’ {1} It is said by Moorhouse in his book on Pepys {2} that Pepys in the diary uniformly calls Sir Edward Montagu ‘my lord’, even before he [be]came Earl of Sandwich.

Ever yours
G. C. Moore Smith

I got a good holiday in the Highlands, Oban, Skye &c.

[Added on the back:] But apparently he was one of the Lord Commissioners of the Treasury in 1658.

[Direction:] R. B. McKerrow Esq | 4 Phoenix Lodge Mansions | Brook Green | Hammersmith | London W

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Postmarked at Sheffield S.D.O. at 9.45 p.m. on 4 October 1909. Marked in pencil ‘Nashe’.

{1} The expression is referred to several times in Vol. IV: see pp. 87 (note on i. 153, 22), 194 (note on i. 329, 22), 416, and 419. It is not clear which instance Moore Smith had in mind.

{2} E. H. Moorhouse, Samuel Pepys, Administrator, Observer, Gossip (1909).