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“BREACH OF PROMISE SUIT EXPECTED MR. HERMAN TYPEE OMOO MELVILLE has recently been united in lawful wedlock to a young lady of Boston. The fair forsaken FAYAWAY will doubtless console herself by suing him."
~The Daily Tribune, 07 August 1847
Perhaps not the most complimentary wedding congratulation a newspaper could have bestowed Elizabeth Shaw.
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