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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm82054320
Collection material in English
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
The papers of Eliot Janeway, economist, and Elizabeth Janeway, author, were given to the Library of Congress by the Janeways in 1958 and by Michael Janeway in 2003.
The papers of Eliot Janeway and Elizabeth Janeway were arranged and described circa 1970. The collection was expanded and revised in 2010.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Eliot Janeway and Elizabeth Janeway is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of Eliot Janeway and Elizabeth Janeway are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Eliot Janeway and Elizabeth Janeway Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Eliot Janeway was born in New York City in 1913. As a political economist he wrote books, articles, and syndicated columns. He served as an economic advisor to Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson. He was a vigorous critic of presidential economic policies from the Roosevelt to the Ronald Reagan administrations. He died in 1993 in New York City. Elizabeth Hall was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1913. She married Eliot Janeway in 1938. She began her writing career as a novelist in the 1940s, later becoming a literary critic, essayist, and finally a feminist author by the 1970s. She died in Rye, N.Y. in 2005.
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 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.
This collection is arranged alphabetically by creator and then by title of writing. The Addition is arranged alphabetically by type of material.
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm82054320