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Sewell W. Hodge (d. 1986) was 1916 Swarthmore College graduate and insurance company executive. Active in Swarthmore Monthly Meeting, he and his wife Reba lived at 111 Ogden Ave., Swarthmore; she was a founder of the Swarthmore Public Library. Much of the correspondence deals with Janet's repayment of a loan but touched on events of the times

Incomplete draft from Janet recalled her daughter Elizabeth and fond memories of fine times at Swarthmore Meeting.

Undated letter from Stroudsburg Hospital from Janet with an update of her mother's condition, includes a note from Anna. Later letters from Janet to "Cousin Hannah," urged her to tell truth. Typed signed note from Isaac Clothier, Jr., which praised the remarks that Janet made at Hannah's memorial service. Hannah Hull and Janet's mother, Anna Speakman, lifelong friends.

Frederick J. Libby (1891-1970) served as Executive Secretary of the National Council for Prevention of War in Washington, D.C., from 1921 until his death. He wrote in 1957 he was skeptical about Janet's claim that the FBI was investigating her and refused her offer to research for him in Swarthmore College Peace Collection.

Gladys Gould MacKenzie (1893-1980) was a member of Friends Meeting of Washington and worked for the National Council for the Prevention of War with Frederick Libby. In 1970 she wrote from Swarthmore that she was working on their archives in the Peace Collection

Brent Dow Allinson (1893-1967), Harvard Class of 1918, a peace activist and WWI conscientious objector who was imprisoned a Fort Leavenworth from 1918-1921. He was a poet and taught at American University and elsewhere. He and Janet Speakman became friends in the 1920s and 1931 and resumed their correspondence in 1954 until his death in Mexico in 1967.