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entitled "The Carrs, American Music Publishers," ap-
pears in the Musical Quarterly for January, 1932. Al-
though it deals chiefly with the life and works of
Benjamin Carr of Philadelphia, considerable material
is included concerning the Baltimore branch of the
family, Joseph Carr and his son Thomas. This family
was to wield considerable influence in the musical
life of the nation for the first half of the nine-
teenth century.

Ralph Shaw, Musician and Publisher. - Ralph Shaw
was a sojourner in Baltimore for only two years, pos-
sibly not that long. He has been characterized as
"an oboist, bassoonist, composer and editor",¹⁷ and
to that may be added vocalist and music publisher.

It was Mrs. Shaw who opened her family's Balti-
more interlude with an advertisement to the effect
that "Mrs. Shaw, late of the New Theatre", informed
the ladies of Baltimore and the Point [Fell's Point]
that she had received by way of Philadelphia "an ele-
gant assortment of millinery of the latest fashions,
from London: ostrich and fancy feathers, flowers, &c.,"
and that she desired a location in a central part of
the city.¹⁸ Apparently the location of the new milli-

nery store, "betwixt the new Assembly Room and Gay

17 Diohter, Harry, Early American sheet music,
p. 233.

18 Federal gazette. January 1, 1799.