Box 4

Includes a letter regarding Janet's application to do a radio address on her travels.

Agitated undated typed letter, incomplete, defending herself from cruel remarks about how she was taken in by "Lova" and became a laughing stock. She had planned to go to South America, would have benefited from her mother's warning. She felt she was always unfairly compared to her sister.

Typed. Janet was upset by political situation, she continued to have sympathies for how Germany had been treated. She had taken rooms in the Winslow Hotel in NYC, and was having health issues.

Janet's aunt Mary Travilla (1860-1947) attended the Swarthmore Preparative School. By 1920, she lived in Pasadena, California, alternating with a cottage in Buck Hill Falls,, Pennsylvania. She was well-known in Quaker circles as a powerful preacher. In her last years she resided in the Hickman in West Chester and died at the age of 86.

Typed letter reporting that Mrs. Roosevelt was very interest in Janet's slides of Russia

Includes a letter to "dearest" about finances.

Dr. Claus Jordan's report on his treatment of Anna Speakman, General Hospital of Monroe County, Pennsylvania. He wrote that he had noted loss of weight. Progress notes 9/20-24 of exploratory operation and infected gall bladder. Daughter Martha was with her, and Janet hurried home from Pasadena, California. Anna Travilla Speakman died Oct. 27, 1945.

He had heard that Anna had the operation. In the later 1957 to Janet he wrote that he glad that she was getting over the bitterness and hurt.

Early letters to Jenkins and Claude Smith questioned her mother's Will. Janet also wrote to Marie Jenkins. 1946-07-26, Janet was living in Philadelphia. Typed signed letterfrom Jenkins concerns a loan she repaid. Charles Jenkins was a prominent Philadelphia Quaker and close friend of both her parents. He and Smith were executors of Anna's Will which divided her estate bewteen her two daughters.