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Best general references: Forum 11,315; Our Day, II, 41; George Pellew Woman and the Common wealth Pamphlets...
...volume of poems by the late George Pellew '80 with an introduction by W. D. Howells has been published by Clark of Boston...
...George Pellew, a graduate of Harvard in the class of '80, met his death by a sad accident on the morning of Feb. 18. An inflammation of one eye had rendered his sight defective. While passing along West Thirty-fifth Street, he fell through an open gate into the area below and was instantly killed...
...read and favorably commented on both in this country and in England. It was warmly reviewed in several English magazines, in one instance by the well-known statesman, John Morley. In 1890 he contributed to the "American Statesman Series" a life of Chief Justice Jay, his great-grandfather. Mr. Pellew was for some time the New York correspondent of the Boston Journal. About fifteen months ago he became a member of the editorial staff of the Sun. He was also known as a magazine writer, and contributed many articles to the Critic. He was preparing at the time...
...author of "John Jay," in the American Statesmen series, does not rest his real claim for the fame of Jay upon his services as a political leader, governor of New York, or Chief Justice. It is in the character of the negotiator of the Peace of Paris that Mr. Pellew presents Jay in the best light. It is while he was associated with Franklin and Adams that he did his best work; and it is precisely because he was associated with these men of wider fame that justice was done his memory. On another point Mr. Pellew does not make...