Autograph Letter, signed “Edward Everett” as Secretary of State, to novelist John Pendleton Kennedy, then Secretary of the Navy

by Herman Melville, Edward Everett

$750 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

2 pp. pen-and-ink on folded sheet. 1 vols. 12mo. Fine. Parker, Herman Melville, Volume 1: 1819-1851, pp. 341-343. Item #256467 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

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