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.]