Letter to Walter Cowing, 1892 September 22.

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Letter to Walter Cowing, 1892 September 22.

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Mrs. Shaw writes to Mr. Cowing (asking if she may address him as Walter, since she knew his mother and father) to thank him for his letter, for getting the "petition" signed, and for his words of sympathy. She prefers his inscription to Harry's as he (Walter) gets "the facts more fully." She says that she has sent a box with a figurine by express and encloses the receipt. She notes that the death of the subject of the sympathy note is both a personal loss and a loss to the country for what he has done "to raise the standard of political morals." The note of sympathy probably did not concern her husband, since he died in 1882 and the letter is dated 1892. (The letter was laid into the Memorial of Robert Gould Shaw, Cambridge Massachusetts.).

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Cowing, Walter C.

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Shaw, Sarah Blake Sturgis, 1815-1902.

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Sarah Shaw was the wife of Francis George Shaw, a prominent philanthropist and reformer of Boston and West Roxbury, Mass., and Staten Island, N.Y. The Shaws were the parents of Robert Gould Shaw, Civil War soldier and colonel of the first black regiment to serve with the Union Army. From the description of Letters to Sarah Blake Sturgis Shaw from various correspondents, 1838-1880. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612365572 From the guide to the Letters to Sarah Blak...