Although a quiet, modest, and always overworked person, Wren seems to have liked social relaxation. He was at Lord Brouncker’s in February, 1666-7, with Samuel Pepys, who refers to the music that their host had provided. There were two eunuchs, so tall as to move Sir T. Harvey to some physiological imaginings, and one woman “very well dressed and handsome enough, but would not be kissed,” at least so Mr. Killigrew informed Mr. Pepys. Not long afterwards Pepys met Wren at Streeter’s, “with several virtuosos,” looking at the paintings which were being made for the new theatre at Oxford. It must have been a pleasant occasion on February 9, 1671, when Wren and Pepys dined with Evelyn at Says Court, and all of them went afterwards to see the “Crucifixion” which Grinling Gibbons had carved. A few weeks later the King and Queen indicated their wish to see this work, at Evelyn’s suggestion, and it was taken to Whitehall for their inspection. Evelyn records the anger he felt at the Queen ignoring the merits of the wonderful carving because a “French pedling woman” had run it down, but he had the compensation that “Mr. Wren faithfully promised me to employ him.” How faithfully that promise was fulfilled is proved by the choir stalls of St. Paul’s and work at many another Wren building. In February, 1676, Evelyn and Wren, with other notable Fellows of the Royal Society, dined with Sir John Williamson, and in November in the following year the same inseparable friends dined in the company of Prince Rupert and other learned men at the Lord Treasurer’s. Wren had achieved that useful measure of friendship with Prince Rupert which caused his name to figure on a list of intimates to whom the Prince sent every year a gift of choicest wine from his estates on the Rhine. In August, 1680, Evelyn was deputed by the Royal Society to make a visit of ceremony to Monsieur Chardine, a famous French traveller who had come to London, and characteristically he took Wren with him. Wren must have been good company at dinner. In 1669 Sir John Clayton wrote to a friend: “Saturday last I went with the Duke of Buckingham to Denham ... on our return home we dined at Uxbridge, and never in all my life did I pass my day away with such gusto, our company being his Grace, Mr. Weller, Mr. Surveyor Wren and myself: nothing but quintessence of wit and most excellent discourse.”