Box 2

Draft of letter not sent expressing opposition to Dugdale's actions.

Letter (incomplete) to his uncle with impressions of Ohio Yearly Meeting and its two factions, viz. the "conservatives" and the "reformers." Janney sees himself as an "anti-slavery man," but finds himself allied with the conservatives. The debate over receiving the epistles from the "Congregational Yearly Meeting of Genesee" was long but not acrimonious, and finally an accomodation was made.

Letter of 8mo 26 1850 comments on the sad state of the Society, and that of 4mo 30 1851 on Dugdale's activities in Pennsylvania. On 12mo6 1852 he reports a visit to Lucretia Mott, and regrets that her influence in the Society of Friends is declining due to her divergent opinions.

Thanks Hallowell for the loan in 1839, enclosing the balance due except for the interest, and acknowledges that he has paid those debts first to the needy and those "most likely to cast imputations on the Society of Friends."

Letter of 6mo 15 1851 relates a conversation with Dugdale at Marlborough Meeting.

Commiserates with him on the difficulties still ongoing in his yearly meeting, and offers comments on Oliver Johnson and the proceedings of the "Practical Christian Conference" held at New Garden.