Box 4

Copy of a poem expressing sorrow.

Incomplete. George Truman was looking for a suitable poem to read at formal presentation of West's Penn's Treaty to Swarthmore College.

Draft, expresses different interpretation of Jewish law from that expressed by Jackson.

Janney visited John M. White, Philadelphia Orthodox Quaker and his friends who told him of English Friends who visited the President on slavery issue, and planned to meet with governors of the Southern states. Another letter reports that a reading circle of Orthodox Friends in Burlington much appreciated his Life of Penn. In Baltimore Yearly Meeting, heard Nickolas Brown and Jesse Kersey speak.

Janney thanks them for his visit with them to the southern suburbs of Philadelphia to see the condition of the free people of color. Largely believed in South that were worse off than enslaved people, but he was grateful to not find it true. Especially impressed with the schools for African Americans.

Draft, response to Pease' letter of 1853. Writes that in conversations with Orthodox Friends in Philadelphia, found them to be not much different, as he had expected.

Draft, has a draft of a manuscript from John Comply who wishes to have it published as a series. Representative Committee wants to wait for the whole; Janney suggests that he publish it on his own (Janney's) responsibility.

Asks that he write an essay on the express concern he made at Select Yearly Meeting on qualifications for gospel ministry. Second letter is dated 2mo 1860 and asks his help in finding funding for the publishing of a book on Friends' testimonies for children.

Family news.

From Louisville, where the office of the Journal burned with all copies of an issue announcing publication of the life of George Fox. Would like to retire from business to write.