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.
4.055 - 4.064 (Page: 61 - 70)
4.055.
Diary: 3.5x6" labeled as "1993 A World of Thanks, Compliments of Linus Pauling Inst Sci Med, Palo Alto, CA 94306".
4.056.
Memo book: 3.5x6" spiral bound labeled as "Tumbler Memo Book Eye Ease Paper", with
transcription of contents [year not specified].
4.057.
Diary: 3x4.25" labeled "Address and Telephone", blank [No Year].
4.058.
Five Red Dictabelts in a brown envelope labeled by LP "Chapter 9, 5 belts". [Transferred
to WAV/DVD].
4.059.
Thirteen Red Dictabelts in a brown envelope labeled by LP "Chapter 6". [Transferred
to WAV/DVD].
4.060.
Six Red Dictabelts in a "Dictapak" envelope labeled by LP "Chap. 3". [Transferred
to WAV/DVD].
4.061.
Twelve Red Dictabelts in a CIT envelope labeled by LP "Aletheau Chaps 1 & 2". [Transferred
to WAV/DVD].
4.062.
Five Red Dictabelts with no envelope, with a white "X" marked on each. [Transferred
to WAV/DVD].
4.063.
Three Red Dictabelts with no envelope, with "PR 1" marked in white on the outermost
belt, and a card in the middle labeled by LP "PROTEINS - Italian Dr. Gianturco". [Transferred
to WAV/DVD].
4.064.
Four Red Dictabelts with no envelope, with four straight white lines marked on one
side of the outermost belt, and a card in the middle labeled by LP "HEMOGLOBIN - Italian
Dr. Gianturco". [Transferred to WAV/DVD].
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