{"date":"February 23","id":"02-23","intro":["Gossipy, witty Pepys had a curiosity that made him famous. He knew all the news of court and street. Stevenson, who never put his pen to a dull subject, writes of Pepys."],"minutes":18,"readings":[{"author":"Robert Louis Stevenson","end":292,"start":285,"volume":28,"work":"Samuel Pepys"}],"slug":"february-23","status":"proofread","title":"Pepys’ Nose for News","url":"/harvard-classics/february-23/","words":3561}