Scope and Content Note
The papers of Eliot Janeway (1913-1993) and Elizabeth Janeway (1913-2005) span the years 1943-1968 and consist mainly of drafts of novels by Elizabeth Janeway. Included are holograph, corrected, and typewritten drafts of publications by her such as The Accident, Angry Kate, Daisy Kenyon, The Third Choice, and The Walsh Girls. Also in the collection are miscellaneous notes of Elizabeth Janeway and a draft of her husband Eliot Janeway’s The Economics of Crisis: Way, Politics, and the Dollar.
The Addition consists of papers of Eliot Janeway. The correspondence is an exchange of letters between Janeway and James Allen. Both men were supporters of the presidential aspirations of William O. Douglas. The letters concern behind the scenes political maneuvering of officials in the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, the Democratic national conventions of 1944 and 1948, and the unfolding events of the 1940s and the effect upon presidential politics. The diary covers May-June of 1941 and concerns policy and politics in the Roosevelt administration.