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Natalie was friend from European travels, she lived in England when they met. She offered to help Janet settle down, and they apparently became estranged after the death of Anna Speakman. She settled in Claremont, California, with her husband. Janet and Natalie resumed their correspondence in 1958.

A friend Janet's time in NYC

Friends from European travel? Janet wrote that she had enjoyed her private nursing work in 1949-1951 but then stopped. She wrote that she tried writing, and by 1956 was living in the Women's Christian Temperance Union boarding house located Chester. Pennsylvania, near Sun Shipbuiding Company on a busy thorough fare.

Janet knew Harry Edmonds from her travels with the American Seminar. He was the founder and first director of the International House in New York and supporter of German post-war reconstruction. In 1970 he advised her never to return to Buck Hill Falls and let it remain past history.

Janet's letter of 1952 referred to their conversations about the Elkintons' trip to Japan. In 1960 J. Passmore wrote to her for her comments on meeting Howard Brinton in Berlin.

Janet confided in Emery after her mother's death, but he was not sympathetic to her accusations.

Janet wrote that she had moved from Swarthmore, 14 S. Princeton home, to Atlantic City which was cheaper and where she felt safe. She heard that her brother-in-law had died, tried to call her sister, but had no contact with the family. She wrote that in 1950 her important papers had been stolen, and she suffered from anxiety.

Janet drafted a memorial for longtime member of Swarthmore Monthly Meeting

Hill (1880-1960) served as principal and president of Cheyney State Teachers College from 1913 - 1951. In later letters he encouraged her to participate in ministry.