And So to Bed: The Index to the Diary of Samuel Pepys

Presented by Fred Leise

American Society for IndexingNational Conference

May 14, 2010

And So to Bed: The Index to The Diary of Samuel

About Fred

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Back-of-book indexer since 1995

Bio available at: www.contextualanalysis.com

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Latham & Matthews Edition

Published from 1970 to 1983

First complete and unexpurgated

9 volumes of diary transcription

1 companion volume (people, historical events)

1 index volume

Who Was Samuel Pepys?

Born 1633, died 1703

A Londoner

A clerk in the Exchequer

Later secretary to the Admiral in the Navy Office

Fellow of the Royal Society

The Diary

Period covered: 1 Jan 1660 to 31 May 1669

1,250,000 words; 3,100 pages; 6 volumes

Written in shorthand

Great Events of the Time

Restoration of the Monarchy (1660, after Cromwell)

Second Dutch War (1664–1667)

The Plague (1665)

Great Fire of London (1666)

Index to the Diary

317 pages long

Headnote: 4 pages long

Compiled over the period 1950 to 1982 by Robert and Linnet Latham

Every text reference was validated in the typescript by hand.

1. “P” used throughout the index to indicate Samuel Pepys

EP for his wife Elizabeth

Index Construction and Techniques

1. Main heading format

2. Cross-reference placement

3. Subheading format

4. Sub-subheading format

5. Locator format

Index Levels1

Annotations

Headings for Cross-Refs

Exhaustivity

4 ½ pages of entries…

Treatment of Names

1. Name in brackets not mentioned directly in text

2. No first name identified

3. Father not mentioned in the text

Treatment of Names

Minor character not otherwise indexed

Self-Reference

Note also string of undifferentiated locators

Series of undifferentiated locators

Main Heading Groupings

Interesting Entries

Plus 4 ½ more pages of similar entries

Contact Information

Fred Leise

www.contextualanalysis.com

fredleise@contextualanalysis.com

@ChicagoIndexer

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