Poet and editor. Born in Boston, Mass. Son of Thomas Dawes, a judge. Attended Harvard
College, where he studied law. Edited *The Emerald* (Baltimore). Author of *The Valley
of the Nashaway, and Other Poems* (1830) and *Geraldine, Athenia of Damascus, and
Miscellaneous Poems* (1839). Biographical information: *Specimens of American Poetry*,
edited by Samuel Kettell, S. G. Goodrich and Co., 1829, vol. 3, p. 215; *The Imperial
Dictionary of Universal Biography*, vol. 2, William Mackenzie, [1857], p. 43.; VIAF.
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