2 pp. pen-and-ink on folded sheet. 1 vols. 12mo
1852
by (Melville, Herman) Everett, Edward
1852. 2 pp. pen-and-ink on folded sheet. 1 vols. 12mo. Fine. 2 pp. pen-and-ink on folded sheet. 1 vols. 12mo. Secretary of State Edward Everett writes to Secretary of the Navy John Pendleton Kennedy on Justice Lemuel Shaw’s behalf to recommend his son John Oakes Shaw for a position in the Navy. Oakes Shaw (as he was known) was the eldest son from his father's second marriage, to Hope Savage. He became the brother-in-law of Herman Meville when the author married Justice Shaw’s daughter, Elizabeth, from his first marriage. In fact Oakes had truly disgraced his family when in 1844 he married an “inopportunely preganant Caroline (Caro) Sarah Cobb.”
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