Word: sedova
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks following the assassination, Trotsky's widow, Natalya Sedova, collected the remainder of Trotsky's papers an dsuch memorabilia as his passport and Mexican identification card and had them shipped to Harvard. In 1953 another four or five items, including Trotsky's diary, were sold to Harvard by Sedova. But the growth of the Trotsky archives did not stop even there. Some of the papers which had never been sent on to Mexico were hidden from the Germans in France during the war by the family of John van Heijenoort, Trotsky's secretary for more than 10 years...
...fill 94 boxes in the stacks of Houghton Library, Harvard's chief depository for rare books and manuscripts. The archives, like all of Houghton's collections, are maintained at an even 70 degrees F. and 50 percent humidity to ensure their physical survival. The classified archives, including all of Sedova's papers, are kept in 4E boxes in a locked room along with a number of other classified collections...
Died. Natalia Ivanovna Sedova Trotsky, 79, frail wife of late Revolutionary Leon Trotsky; outside Paris. An active revolutionist by 15, she met Trotsky in Paris in 1902, was jailed with him in Russia after the abortive 1905 revolution, rose to high bureaucratic posts with him (e.g., director of museums) after the 1917 Bolshevik victory, fled with him in 1928, tried vainly to get Nikita Khrushchev to restore him to honor in the Communist constellation...