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[Letterhead]
Chambers of State of Oregon
George M. Brown Supreme Court
Associate Justice Salem
November 18, 1922
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
This is to testify to the good moral character, integrity, commendable deportment, and more than ordinary ability of John Nellis Hamlin, now residing at 1 Claverly Hall, Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
I am qualified to speak concerning Mr. Hamlin, for the reason that I have been acquainted with him and his affairs since his infancy. His grandparents and parents were intimate acquaintances of the writer for more than a quarter of a century. He has been attending Harvard University since the close of the World War. Very early in that war, he volunteered, trained at Camp Lewis Washington, and was later sent to Camp Grant, Illinois, to an Officers' Training School, where he was when the Armistice was signed. He has been taking a special course at Harvard, preparatory for the Diplomatic Service. He is receiving most excellent instruction in International Law from Dr. Wilson, one of the great authorities on that subject in our Country. He as also received much instruction in Diplomatic History from Professor Albert Bushnell Hart and others.
I take great pleasure in stating that young Hamlin comes from patriotic American stock, and, in my judgment, he is fit material for the Diplomatic Service of the United States.
Respectfully submitted,
Geo M Brown [signed in ink]
GMB:P
[This letter is a carbon copy of the one sent to Nellis for submission with his application, but is signed in ink, in any case, by Justice Brown.]
Monday, October 4, 2010
November 18, 1922 letter from George Brown [Oregon Supreme Court Associate Justice] to Frank B. Hamlin
[Letterhead]
Chambers of State of Oregon
George M. Brown Supreme Court
Associate Justice Salem
November 18, 1922
Major Frank B. Hamlin,
Springfield, Oregon
My dear friend Hamlin:
I am enclosing herewith copy of a recommendation, the original of which I have mailed to your son, John Nellis Hamlin, at 1 Claverly Hall, Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
I hope that I have been able to lend the young man a mite of assistance.
With personal regards to yourself and family, I remain,
Very truly your friend,
Geo M Brown [signed in ink]
ENCL.
GMB:P
P. S. I herewith return his letter to you.
Chambers of State of Oregon
George M. Brown Supreme Court
Associate Justice Salem
November 18, 1922
Major Frank B. Hamlin,
Springfield, Oregon
My dear friend Hamlin:
I am enclosing herewith copy of a recommendation, the original of which I have mailed to your son, John Nellis Hamlin, at 1 Claverly Hall, Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
I hope that I have been able to lend the young man a mite of assistance.
With personal regards to yourself and family, I remain,
Very truly your friend,
Geo M Brown [signed in ink]
ENCL.
GMB:P
P. S. I herewith return his letter to you.
Sept. 24, 1922 Letter from Nellis to Pa [Frank B. Hamlin]
I Claverly Hall,
Cambridge, Mass.
Sept. 24, 1922
Dear Pa,
Along with my application for appointment to take the examination for a secretaryship in the Diplomatic Service I need two letter of recommendation. Mr. Louis A. Coolidge, of Boston, will write one of the letters. He was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under President Roosevelt. I think the other letter should come from a good representative Oregonian. Would you please suggest one to me, or possibly ask some one to write the recommendation for me.
Quoting from a note on my application blank it says tin part, "letters from competent and responsible persons must be filed with the Department of State attesting the moral character, integrity, good deportment, and ability of the applicant, and his qualifications as set forth in this application. In order that due consideration may be given these recommendations, the persons who vouch for the applicant's qualifications as set forth above should state the facts which enable them to do so."
I have had nearly all the courses preparatory to foreign service which the college offers, and by special permission occasionally granted Seniors I am entering Prof. George Grafton Wilson's graduate course in International law to-marrow. As you know I have already had two years of International law from him, and several years of diplomatic history from Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart and others.
If I send my application in before long I believe my changes of being designated to take the competitive examinations with the next group, probably in the spring, are good, and that will be near the time I receive my degree here.
As ever,
Nellis [signed in ink]
Cambridge, Mass.
Sept. 24, 1922
Dear Pa,
Along with my application for appointment to take the examination for a secretaryship in the Diplomatic Service I need two letter of recommendation. Mr. Louis A. Coolidge, of Boston, will write one of the letters. He was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under President Roosevelt. I think the other letter should come from a good representative Oregonian. Would you please suggest one to me, or possibly ask some one to write the recommendation for me.
Quoting from a note on my application blank it says tin part, "letters from competent and responsible persons must be filed with the Department of State attesting the moral character, integrity, good deportment, and ability of the applicant, and his qualifications as set forth in this application. In order that due consideration may be given these recommendations, the persons who vouch for the applicant's qualifications as set forth above should state the facts which enable them to do so."
I have had nearly all the courses preparatory to foreign service which the college offers, and by special permission occasionally granted Seniors I am entering Prof. George Grafton Wilson's graduate course in International law to-marrow. As you know I have already had two years of International law from him, and several years of diplomatic history from Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart and others.
If I send my application in before long I believe my changes of being designated to take the competitive examinations with the next group, probably in the spring, are good, and that will be near the time I receive my degree here.
As ever,
Nellis [signed in ink]
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Dec. 14, 1898 - letter of recommendation for Mrs. N. F. [?] Hamlin
Dec. 14, 1898
To any School Board, Greeting; I trust know the bearer of this, Mrs. N. F. [?] Hamlin, to be a teacher of long and successful experience in our public schools. During my *** as principal of the San Luis Obispo City Schools she had charge of the Primary Dept when she proved herself as a primary teacher of a high order of merit. She was patient and painstaking, and thorough in every detail of her work, in addition to which she has the faculty of managing and dealing successfully with the little ones. As a lady and a teacher, and especially of primary grades, I fully & cheerfully commend her.
W. M. Armstrong
Ex. Co. Supt of Schools
of San Luis Obispo Ca
Sunday, July 19, 2009
1863 Simeon Hamblin district treasurer
In brown ink on faded lined paper pulled from a spiral notebook.
July the 16 A.D. 1863
To P. J. Houk County Treasurer
Please pay Simeon Hamblin treasurer of district township of Monroe in the County of Monroe and the State of Iowa the amount of taxes levied and collected on account of said district for teachers funds and schoolhouse fund up to this date July the 16-1863
J W Thompson, Secretary
July the 16 A.D. 1863
To P. J. Houk County Treasurer
Please pay Simeon Hamblin treasurer of district township of Monroe in the County of Monroe and the State of Iowa the amount of taxes levied and collected on account of said district for teachers funds and schoolhouse fund up to this date July the 16-1863
J W Thompson, Secretary
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Hamblin Cemetery; Madison, Iowa
In case you're interested, here's a link to the Hamblin Cemetery in Iowa.
http://www.interment.net/data/us/ia/madison/hamblin_cemetery.htm
It's where Simeon & Elinor are buried. There is information at the top of the page about how the cemetery was started.
So, it looks like this will be more than just the letters.
~Kathy
http://www.interment.net/data/us/ia/madison/hamblin_cemetery.htm
It's where Simeon & Elinor are buried. There is information at the top of the page about how the cemetery was started.
So, it looks like this will be more than just the letters.
~Kathy
1890 From [maternal] Grandma Thomson to Frank & his mother Halie [Mahala] Hamblin
McPherson Iowa Oct 31st 90
Dear Grand Son
I rec your very welcome letter some time was not able to answer it then but will try to now
We are all well at this time of writing hoping this may find you all enjoying good health we have had a poor dry season have not raised very good crops and our hay crop was almost a failure.
We cut the grass from 40 arcres of meadow and had only about ten tons of hay so you see that was next thing to a failure we drove forty head of cattle to Union ? and got them pastured and the rest of our cattle and horses we have had to feed them corn for about two months we only had four bush of apples when we gathered them the corn crop is generally poor through I’a and else where it was the driest summer we have ever known in I’a stock water was very scarce
There is a considerable sickness around through the country. John Steel[,] Kate Cochrans husband has been very sick with Typoid Fever for over a month and as not considered out of danger yet. Frank Cochran has very poor health he has kidney disease is not able to labor any has been sick over a year I fear he will not get well his sickness was caused by a fall he is a nice boy
Emma [Frank B's sister b.1871] was over to your aunts ?? not long ago they were all well the rest of your relatives are well Frank it does seem so good to get a letter from you I often get that little letter that don’t
you remember printing one it was nice Grand Pa and me when you lived in Oswego I think it is awful nice I would not like to part with it I do hope that you will write often you and Emma. I would so well like to see you both in fact all of you I will have to draw my letter to a close by wishing you good night much love to you all write often
Your Grand Ma L C [Lydia Charlotte] Thomson
Dear Halie [Mahala, Frank B.'s mother] I thought I could not finish this letter without writing some to you concerning those nuts and roots owing to the late frost in the spring and the dry summer There was no mast [nuts?] we hunted every where and inquired of a gret many that came to the Office and others they all said there was no nuts in the country so we done the next best thing, those walnuts grew on the walnut trees that you and I [planted] east of the north orchard they were the only ones I knew of in the country and they were only a few. I commenced to wrap them up in the rags but pa thought they would be better to plant with the hulls on so we sent them that way we did not save any plum seed so we sent you some plum sprouts the weaver plum they are nice plum almost eaqual to a peach we sent you some [?] Black berries some red raspberries we fetched them from Sam Hemsted also some Black caps Rasberries and some currants a Peony a flowering almond, a Lilac Thre kind of lilies the ones that was in one end of the box looked like potatoes is a Lillie, that I got from Aunt Sarah Mamby all of these are perfectly hardy live out doors all winter with little protection I would mulch them some there was one Lillie had rather a long root it is a house plant it will grow out doors in
Halie I sent you two plums seeds that I had planted they are the weaver plum I think that they will grow for I plant plums [?] all and those little red berries in the package are asperagus seeds the girls say that you must name the rose bushes after them.
Dear Grand Son
I rec your very welcome letter some time was not able to answer it then but will try to now
We are all well at this time of writing hoping this may find you all enjoying good health we have had a poor dry season have not raised very good crops and our hay crop was almost a failure.
We cut the grass from 40 arcres of meadow and had only about ten tons of hay so you see that was next thing to a failure we drove forty head of cattle to Union ? and got them pastured and the rest of our cattle and horses we have had to feed them corn for about two months we only had four bush of apples when we gathered them the corn crop is generally poor through I’a and else where it was the driest summer we have ever known in I’a stock water was very scarce
There is a considerable sickness around through the country. John Steel[,] Kate Cochrans husband has been very sick with Typoid Fever for over a month and as not considered out of danger yet. Frank Cochran has very poor health he has kidney disease is not able to labor any has been sick over a year I fear he will not get well his sickness was caused by a fall he is a nice boy
Emma [Frank B's sister b.1871] was over to your aunts ?? not long ago they were all well the rest of your relatives are well Frank it does seem so good to get a letter from you I often get that little letter that don’t
you remember printing one it was nice Grand Pa and me when you lived in Oswego I think it is awful nice I would not like to part with it I do hope that you will write often you and Emma. I would so well like to see you both in fact all of you I will have to draw my letter to a close by wishing you good night much love to you all write often
Your Grand Ma L C [Lydia Charlotte] Thomson
Dear Halie [Mahala, Frank B.'s mother] I thought I could not finish this letter without writing some to you concerning those nuts and roots owing to the late frost in the spring and the dry summer There was no mast [nuts?] we hunted every where and inquired of a gret many that came to the Office and others they all said there was no nuts in the country so we done the next best thing, those walnuts grew on the walnut trees that you and I [planted] east of the north orchard they were the only ones I knew of in the country and they were only a few. I commenced to wrap them up in the rags but pa thought they would be better to plant with the hulls on so we sent them that way we did not save any plum seed so we sent you some plum sprouts the weaver plum they are nice plum almost eaqual to a peach we sent you some [?] Black berries some red raspberries we fetched them from Sam Hemsted also some Black caps Rasberries and some currants a Peony a flowering almond, a Lilac Thre kind of lilies the ones that was in one end of the box looked like potatoes is a Lillie, that I got from Aunt Sarah Mamby all of these are perfectly hardy live out doors all winter with little protection I would mulch them some there was one Lillie had rather a long root it is a house plant it will grow out doors in
Halie I sent you two plums seeds that I had planted they are the weaver plum I think that they will grow for I plant plums [?] all and those little red berries in the package are asperagus seeds the girls say that you must name the rose bushes after them.
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