The Harriet Burleigh Janes collection occupies 2 boxes, or approximately 3.5 linear feet of shelf space. The materials consist of diaries, miniature books, drawings, a few photographs, some personal correspondence and genealogical information, and manuscripts of poems, short stories, and articles, as well as the unfinished book manuscript, and sections of newspapers containing “Effie Ray's” stories. Janes was not a consistent diarist, but her diaries and personal correspondence offer the best available glimpse of her life and personality. Perhaps the most curious part of the collection is the “spirit writings,” many purportedly by Harriet Janes, that her grieving family received after her early death.