Series 3: Retirement years, ca. 1950-1971
Scope and Contents
Sorted by correspondent, most are post 1950. Circa 1951 Janet lived in New York City but gave up nursing after she was sent on an assignment that she felt put her in danger. Her accusations concerning Hannah Hull and Charles Jenkins led to meetings with elders of Swarthmore Monthly Meeting. She moved often until she found a home in the Women's Temperance Home in Chester, Pennsylvania, near Sun Shipyard. While generally her letters reflect her personal issues, they reflect the wide range of her correspondents, most of whom were Quakers, friends and relations or Quakers she met in her travels.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Processing Information
In her late years and homeboound, Janet wrote drafts of letters as well as many letters that were not mailed. Sealed letters were sorted to return to the donor and a sample of her most abundant and repetitive correspondence with long-time friends Brent Allinson, Dorothy Pownall, and Adeline Pavlov were retained.
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