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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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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.

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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Anna Travilla Speakman died Oct. 27, 1945, after declining health and apparent complications of abdominal surgery. Janet flew to Pennsylvania from California, and after conversations with her mother's nurse, she became convinced the surgery was unnecessary and as a trained nurse she should have been consulted.

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Landlord in Pasadena who shipped some of the personal items that Janet had left behind including correspondence and uniforms.

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In a letter dated 1945-09-30, Janet despaired that she had not been consulted in her mother's illness. She was convinced her mother had promised her the family cottage "The Hemlocks" at Buck Hill Falls. Janet accused her sister of greed and dishonesty, ruining her health, and of killing their mother and aunt. 1966 Christmas card from nephew Jim.

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In a response to her apparent multiple letters, they wrote that they cannot help her “cause," and want to spend their limited funds on causes such as the AFSC and the Socialist Party.

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Dorothy (1894-1974) was member of Sadsbury Monthly Meeting and long-time resident of Lansdowne, Pennsylvania. She was one of Janet's most patient and loyal correspondents. Later correspondence in Series 3.