Oregon State UniversitySpecial Collections & Archives Research Center

Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers, 1873-2013

16. Personal Safe. 1912-1993.

The four drawers of Linus Pauling's personal safe contained an astonishingly rich and diverse collection of items which have yielded a much fuller portrait of Pauling's life and activities. Drawer 1 held over seven-hundred letters between Linus and Ava Helen Pauling, most of them love letters. Drawers 2 and 3 contained a number of items that Pauling had deemed to be either sensitive or important, including communications with world-historical figures as varied as John F. Kennedy and Ho Chi Minh. Drawer 4 served as repository for the dozens of pocket notebooks that Pauling carried throughout his life, as well as scores of Dictaphone belts on which Pauling had recorded chapters of a proposed autobiography.


42 boxes

4. Linus Pauling's Safe - Drawer 4.


Note: This drawer is inventoried in chronological order, as it contains mostly small journals and pocket planners from the late 1920's to the 1970's, except for items 4.058-4.100c, which are in a box marked "DIARIES Linus Pauling", and items 4.101-4.105, which were loose in the drawer and are in a file folder.

4.046 - 4.054a (Page: 51 - 60)



4.046.
Loose pages: 3.75x6.75" pages from a notebook with addresses typed on the front [and back, on most] of the pages. No Date, but probably pre-1967, judging from some of the addresses.

4.047.
An envelope from Stanford University marked by LP as "Diaries 67-71".
4.047a.
Diary: 3x4" labeled "1967".
4.047b.
Diary: 3x4" labeled "1969".
4.047c.
Diary: 3x5" labeled "1971 deductible $".
4.047d.
Diary: 2.5x4" labeled "Reminder" for 1968.
4.047e.
Diary: 3x4.25" labeled "1970".
4.047f.
Diary: 3.75x6.5" labeled [faintly] "Member Federation of American Scientists, Linus Pauling, Sponsor" for 1986.
4.047g.
Diary: 3.75x6.5 labeled "Member Federation of American Scientists, Linus Pauling, Sponsor", for 1985.
4.047h.
Diary: 3.75x6.5 labeled "Member Federation of American Scientists", for 1989.

4.048.
Wells Fargo Savings Book, 3.5x5", 1971-1973, in a plastic sheath.

4.049.
An envelope marked by LP "Diaries 1972-1975".
4.049a.
Diary: 3.75x6.5" labeled "Federation of American Scientists, Member 1972".
4.049b.
Diary: 3.75x6.5" labeled "Federation of American Scientists, Member 1973".
4.049c.
Diary: 3.75x6.5" labeled "Federation of American Scientists, Member 1974, Dr. Linus Pauling, Sponsor".

4.050.
Deposit record book: 3x6.5" labeled as "Wells Fargo Bank", from 1972-1974, stuck to a Wells Fargo Savings Book, 3.5x5", in a plastic sheath.

4.051.
Diary: 3.5x6.75" labeled as "1975 Weekly Planner" on the inside front page [no markings on cover except for an eagle crest].

4.052.
Diary: 5.5x8" labeled "1976, Safeco, Julius Kogan, The Boroughs Insurance, Inc., 1054 S. Robertson Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif. 90035, Telephone: 655-8338 - 659-3883" for Ava Helen.

4.053.
Fourteen diaries: 3.75x6.5", labeled "Member Federation of American Scientists", for the years 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991 and 1992. Diary for 1977 also marked "Linus Pauling". Diaries for 1978, 1979, and 1982-1992 also marked "Linus Pauling, Sponsor".

4.054.
Diary: 3.25x6.75" labeled as "1984" with the Wells Fargo Coach on the cover.

4.054a.
Diary: 5.5x8.5" labeled as "Week at a Glance Academic/Fiscal Planner 1991-1992".