Helen Truesdell Heath Collection on Samuel Pepys MS.1975.007
Finding aid by Elizabeth Cervantes
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
2024
2520 Cimarron Street
Los Angeles 90018
clark@humnet.ucla.edu
Contributing Institution:
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Title: Helen Truesdell Heath collection on Samuel Pepys
Identifier/Call Number: MS.1975.007
Physical Description:
7.5 Linear feet
(15 boxes)
Date (inclusive): about 1950-1970
Abstract: This collection consists of Helen Truesdell Heath's research materials and manuscripts of research related to the life of
Samuel Pepys. It documents the long process of archival research on Samuel Pepys, and the numerous attempts that are taken
by Heath to get this work published.
Language of Material:
English
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Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Provenance
This collection was donated to the Clark Library by Helen Truesdell Heath. At least two boxes were donated in 1975, and it
is possible that the rest of the collection was donated later, as some materials in the collection are dated 1978 and later.
Biographical Note
Helen Truesdell Heath (born Yetta Helen Walker) was born in Tucson, Arizona on June 18, 1897 to Mark Walker, Jr. and Alice
Feldman. She received a B.A. from USC in 1918, followed by a teaching credential and a master's degree, also at USC .This
ultimately helped her land a job as an English teacher for a public school from the mid 1930s to early 1940s. Following her
career as an educator, she edited a collection of Samuel Pepys's family letters, which was published as The Letters of Samuel
Pepys and His Family Circle in 1955. She did other work with the Pepys archive (reflected in this collection at the Clark
Library), but this work does not appear to have been published.
She married Clifford Ambrose Truesdell II in 1917 and had a son named Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III, who would later become
a scholar in the field of mathematics and sciences. Following the death of her first husband, Helen married her second husband
and a fellow teacher, William R Heath, adopting the name Helen Truesdell Heath. Helen Truesdell Heath died in California in
1987.
References:
Processing History
Processed and described in January 2024 by Elizabeth Cervantes.
Scope and Contents
The Helen Truesdell Heath Collection on Samuel Pepys consists of Heath's research and writing for works on Pepys that were
never published, dated from about 1950-1978. Materials include: transcriptions of archival materials by or related to Pepys
from various institutions in England; letters addressed to Heath by publishing agencies regarding her publishing attempts;
her research notebooks on Pepys from Oxford and Cambridge; Samuel Pepys Club paperwork and newsletters; images of Samuel Pepys
and his associates; miscellaneous paperwork related to both Samuel Pepys and Helen Truesdell Heath; paperwork from the Public
Record Office, London (PRO); and other miscellaneous paperwork.
Publication Rights
The Clark Library owns the property rights to its collections but does not hold the copyright to these materials and therefore
cannot grant or deny permission to use them. Researchers are responsible for determining the copyright status of any materials
they may wish to use, investigating the owner of the copyright, and obtaining permission for their intended publication or
other use. In all cases, you must cite the Clark Library as the source with the following credit line: The William Andrews
Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Samuel Pepys and the Sieur Le Mornay Mont Series 1
About 1950-1970
Box 1, Folder 1
Introduction : Pepys
About 1950-1970
General
Various copies within the folders
Box 1, Folder 2-3
Chapter I
About 1950-1970
Box 1, Folder 4
Appendix Chapter I
About 1950-1970
Box 1, Folder 5-6
Chapter II
About 1950-1970
Box 1, Folder 7
Appendix Chapter II
About 1950-1970
Box 1, Folder 8-9
Chapter III
About 1950-1970
Box 2, Folder 1
Chapter III : Section I
About 1950-1970
Box 2, Folder 2
Appendix Chapter III
About 1950-1970
Box 2, Folder 3-5
Chapter IV
About 1950-1970
Box 3, Folder 1
Chapter IV : Section I
About 1950-1970
Box 3, Folder 2
Chapter IV : Section II
About 1950-1970
Box 3, Folder 3
Chapter IV : Section III
About 1950-1970
Box 3, Folder 4
Appendix Chapter IV
About 1950-1970
Box 3, Folder 5
Chapter V : Section I
About 1950-1970
Box 3, Folder 6
Chapter V : Section II
About 1950-1970
Box 4, Folder 1-2
Chapter V : Section IV
About 1950-1970
Box 4, Folder 3
Appendix Chapter V
About 1950-1970
Box 4, Folder 4
Chapter VI : Section II
About 1950-1970
Box 4, Folder 5
Chapter VI : Section III
About 1950-1970
Box 4, Folder 6
Chapter VI : Section IV
About 1950-1970
Box 5, Folder 1-3
Chapter VII
About 1950-1970
Box 5, Folder 4
Appendix Chapter VII
About 1950-1970
Box 5, Folder 5
Appendix Chapter VIII
About 1950-1970
Pepys Reply Series 2
About 1950-1970
Box 6, Folder 1-4
Pepys Reply : Appendix
About 1950-1970
The Mornamount Papers Series 3
About 1950-1970
Box 7, Folder 1
Report on Mornamount Papers
About 1950-1970
Box 7, Folder 2
Chapter I
About 1950-1970
Box 7, Folder 3
Mornamont Writings ( Letters) 100-202
About 1950-1970
Box 7, Folder 4
Mornamont Writings ( Letters) 203-284
About 1950-1970
Box 7, Folder 5
Mornamont Writings ( Letters)304-399
About 1950-1970
Box 7, Folder 6
Mornamont Writings ( Letters) 400-512
About 1950-1970
Box 7, Folder 7
Mornamont Writings ( Letters) 513-700
About 1950-1970
Box 7, Folder 8
Mornamont Writings ( Letters) 700-800-900
About 1950-1970
Box 7, Folder 9
Mornamont Writings ( Letters) 1000-1093
About 1950-1970
Box 7, Folder 10
Mornamont Writings ( Letters) 1110-1235
About 1950-1970
Box 7, Folder 11
Mornamont Writings ( Letters) 1200-1305
About 1950-1970
Rawlinson Writings Series 4
About 1950-1970
Box 8, Folder 1
Rawl. 172-174
About 1950-1970
Box 8, Folder 2
Rawl. 175
About 1950-1970
Box 8, Folder 3
Rawl. 176 , 178
About 1950-1970
Box 8, Folder 4
Rawl.179-183
About 1950-1970
Box 8, Folder 5
Rawl.189-191 , 193
About 1950-1970
Box 9, Folder 1-2
Rawl.194 Letter Book
About 1950-1970
Resources Series 5
About 1950-1970
Box 10, Folder 1
Oxford & Cambridge Notes
About 1950-1970
General
Mrs. Heath's notebooks on Pepys and other findings
Box 10, Folder 2
Public Record Office , London ( P.R.O)
About 1950-1970
Box 10, Folder 3
Sources other than Brodley
About 1950-1970
Box 10, Folder 4
Tanner and Wood ( Brodley)
About 1950-1970
Box 10, Folder 5
Brodley: other than Rawlinson
About 1950-1970
Miscellanous Series 6
About 1950-1970
Box 11, Folder 1-3
Samuel Pepys & Samuel Pepys Club
About 1950-1970
Box 11, Folder 4
Pepys: Selected letters from Adminalty letters , VII and IX Pepys Library: Samuel Pepys Concerning John Scott
About 1950-1970
Box 11, Folder 5
Pepys and Mornamont Duplicates ( From Family Letters)
About 1950-1970
Box 11, Folder 6
Joyne's Bill
About 1950-1970
Box 11, Folder 7
Concordance
About 1950-1970
Box 12, Folder 1
Letters to Helen Truedell Heath + Book Submission Requests
About 1950-1970
General
Contains letters from publishers regarding Mrs. Heath's book(s)
Box 12, Folder 2
Misc. Rawlinson
About 1950-1970
Box 12, Folder 3
Papers connected to Pepys Trial
About 1950-1970
Box 12, Folder 4
Misc. Readings
About 1950-1970
Box 12, Folder 5-6
Misc. Pepys
About 1950-1970
Box 12, Folder 7
Endorsements
About 1950-1970
Box 13
Copies of images of Pepys and his associates
Samuel Pepys Findings Series 7
About 1950-1970
Box 14, Folder 1
Notes from Clark
About 1950-1970
Box 14, Folder 2
Papers by Edwin Chappell
About 1950-1970
Box 14, Folder 3-4
Book and Art Catalogues
About 1950-1970
Box 14, Folder 5
Places connected to Pepys
About 1950-1970
Box 14, Folder 6
Pepys Club Festives
About 1950-1970
Box 14, Folder 7
Pepys Club Festives Notices
About 1950-1970
Box 14, Folder 8
Pepys Club Adresses
About 1950-1970
Box 15, Folder 1
Correspondencew about Pepys' Shorthand
About 1950-1970
Box 15, Folder 2
List of Members , 1953-1967
About 1950-1970
Box 15, Folder 3-5
Notebooks with Ms. Transcriptioms of Shelton's Tachygraphy
About 1950-1970
Box 15, Folder 6
The Queen Mother's Account of the Escape of Charles II as taken down by Sir Richard Browne
About 1950-1970
Box 15, Folder 7
Miscellaneous Items concerning Pepys
About 1950-1970
