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The collected works of Ducrot Pepys
- "It was in the cadet-run POINTER magazine of 27 September 1940 that the diary of "Mr. Ducrot Pepys," a Plebe (freshman at West Point), first appeared. It was loosely based upon the diary of Samuel Pepys, an English diarist who chronicled London life during the years of 1660-69, making observations about people and events with an amazing eye for the telling detail. Samuel Pepys described the great and the mundane, from concerts and dinners to the Plague of 1665 and the Great Fire of 1666. Our Ducrot Pepys chronicled the adventures and misadventures of his righteous "sane wife" and his "other wife," old West Point slang terms (pre West Point going co-ed in 1976)for roommates. As a member of the Class of 1944 that became the wartime emergency Class of June 1943, Ducrot Pepys eventually became "Mr. Yearling (West Point sophomore) Pepys," then Cadet Pepys--Second Class (junior)" for five months, and finally "Cadet Pepys--First Class (senior)" for the remainder of his time at West Point. In all, 60 installments of the diary made it into print."
- "The collected works of Ducrot Pepys"