<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><ead xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9 https://www.loc.gov/ead/ead.xsd"><eadheader countryencoding="iso3166-1" dateencoding="iso8601" langencoding="iso639-2b" repositoryencoding="iso15511"><eadid countrycode="US" mainagencycode="US-viw">Janney-Family-Papers</eadid><filedesc><titlestmt><titleproper type="filing">Janney Family Papers</titleproper><titleproper>Guide to the Janney Family Papers <num>Mss. Acc. 1996.07</num></titleproper><author>Finding Aid Authors: Ellen Strong.</author></titlestmt><publicationstmt><publisher>Special Collections Research Center</publisher><p id="logostmt"><extref xlink:actuate="onLoad" xlink:href="https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/logos/wm.jpg" xlink:show="embed" xlink:type="simple"/></p><p><date>2007-07-25</date></p><address><addressline>William &amp; Mary Special Collections Research Center</addressline><addressline>Earl Gregg Swem Library</addressline><addressline>400 Landrum Dr</addressline><addressline>Williamsburg, Virginia</addressline><addressline>Business Number: 757-221-3090</addressline><addressline>spcoll@wm.edu</addressline><addressline>URL: <extptr xlink:href="https://libraries.wm.edu/libraries-spaces/special-collections" xlink:show="new" xlink:title="https://libraries.wm.edu/libraries-spaces/special-collections" xlink:type="simple"/></addressline></address></publicationstmt></filedesc><profiledesc><creation>This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on <date>2026-05-15 03:01:21 -0400</date>.</creation><langusage>The collection description/finding aid is written in <language encodinganalog="041" langcode="eng">English</language></langusage></profiledesc></eadheader><archdesc level="collection">
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    <unittitle>Janney Family Papers</unittitle>
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      <persname source="lcnaf">Janney, Emily Roseville, 1902-1982</persname>
    </origination>
    <origination label="Creator">
      <persname source="lcnaf">Janney, Henrietta Hopkins</persname>
    </origination>
    <origination label="Creator">
      <persname source="lcnaf">Janney, Samuel Abijah, 1906-1988</persname>
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      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">0.50 Linear Feet</extent>
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    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1927/1945" type="inclusive">1927-1945</unitdate>
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    <head>General</head>
<p>Other Information:</p><p> A PDF document of this inventory is available online.</p><p> Additional information may be found at http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/findingaids/1996_7_Janney.pdf</p>  </odd>
  <bioghist id="aspace_2662b5a269332a9050a9934e3a0655e6">
    <head>Biographical Information:</head>
<p>Information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: <extref xlink:href="http://scdbwiki.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Emily_Roseville_Janney" xlink:title="Emily Roseville Janney"/>.</p>  </bioghist>
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    <head>Acquisition Information:</head>
<p>Deposit</p>  </acqinfo>
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    <head>Processing Information:</head>
<p>Processed by Ellen Strong in 1996.</p>  </processinfo>
  <userestrict id="aspace_861d4687df0ec6eb1058d7c72129d2b5">
    <head>Conditions Governing Use:</head>
<p>Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.</p>  </userestrict>
  <accessrestrict id="aspace_d947d592340d63b3995c4f93027e0032">
    <head>Conditions Governing Access:</head>
<p>Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.</p>  </accessrestrict>
  <prefercite id="aspace_8bdbc22e9bf581bf8fe026f4037b2ad9">
    <head>Preferred Citation:</head>
<p>Janney Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.</p>  </prefercite>
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    <head>Scope and Contents</head>
<p>Letters; 1927-1931, 1943-1945 of the Janney family of 'Roaring Springs,' Gloucester County, Va. Includes letters of Henrietta H. Janney to her daughter Emily R. Janney, a nurse at Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, Md. and the Duke Hospital, Durham, N.C., letters which describe life during the Great Depression in Gloucester County. Typescripts of letters; 1943-1945; from Emily R. Janney, at Gloucester County, to her brother Lt. Commander Samuel A. Janney while he was serving in the US Navy in the North African/Sicilian Campaign of World War II. There are 148 letters to Janney and six to former employees at Roaring Springs who were also soldiers. Seven additional letters to Major Joseph Y. Gayle in the US Army Air Corps while serving in China. Letters give an account of war-time Gloucester County.</p>  </scopecontent>
  <controlaccess>
    <genreform source="aat">Correspondence</genreform>
    <genreform source="aat">Typescripts</genreform>
    <subject source="local">Gloucester County (Va.)--History--20th century</subject>
    <subject source="local">Great Depression--History--Virginia</subject>
    <subject source="lcsh">World War, 1939-1945</subject>
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