November 18, 1922 letter of recommendation from George Brown [Oregon Supreme Court Associate Justice] on behalf of Nellis Hamlin

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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.]

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.

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]