Box 4

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

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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.

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Dictated response to her letter reporting her work in Washington, D.C., meeting with Hubert Herring. His secretary followed up with apology for not sending a more substantive letter. Janet was living at the cottage in Buck Hill Falls.

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Draft cover letter to repay a loan. Janet wrote that she had health and mental issues for the past few years but she was finally recovering and keeping house at the Hemlocks.

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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.

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Undated incomplete letter that mentioned the Los Angles blackout which happened in February 1942: it was a false alarm which unleashed anti-aircraft above LA. Janet expressed anti-war sentiment, that it was in the majority. Written on Murray Hill letterhead, she asked if they were planning to come to Buck Hill sooner.

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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.

Scope and Contents Nye was vicar of St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Lyndhurst, NJ. In a typed signed letter 1951 he hoped that she had continued career as nurse and "found your balance." She wrote in August 1952 that she had left NYC and was staying with friends in a Philadelphia suburb. In a long letter she explaianedd that she had made claims against executors and parents' friends and had tried to bring a lawsuit, but had no money. Nye left the church in 1953 to remarry. In 1954 Janet wrote to his ex-wife,...

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