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Letter Reference:
Undated_Kanaina-Chamberlain
Date of Letter:
Undated
From:
Charles Kanaina [Charles Kanaʻina]
To:
Mi Kamalani [Mr. Levi Chamberlain]
Content Summary:
Charles Kanaʻina writes to Mr. Levi Chamberlain requesting shoes for a boy, David.
Typescript:
[Page 1 of 1, left side]
[Letter Cover]
5/1
Na
Mi Kamalani
5/5
[Page 1 of 1, right side]
Auhea oe e Mi Kama
lani, ke noi aku nei
au ia oe, i Kamaa
no kuu keiki no
David, ua ilihune
i ke kamaa ole, i na
i haawi mai oe, e
hai mai oe iau i ke
Dala e make ai.
Charles Kanaina
Translation:
[Page 1 of 1, left side]
[Letter Cover]
5/1
Na
Mi Kamalani
5/5
[Page 1 of 1, right side]
Listen, Mr. Chamberlain,
I am requesting from you shoes for my boy, David. He is lacking any shoes. If you would
furnish them, let me know the amount of money you would like.
Charles Kanaina
Notes:
1. Mi Kamalani - Mr. Levi Chamberlain was a member of the second company of
missionaries, superintendent of secular affairs for the mission and served as a
missionary teacher.
2. David - In his 1874 book "The Friend, Or, Advocate of Truth," M.T.C. Gould
references David as a first son of Kanaʻina and Kekāuluohi who died young, and
this could be a reference to him. It could also possibly refer to David Kalākaua,
later the seventh sovereign of the kingdom, who was a student at the Chiefs’
Children’s School in Honolulu and not directly related to Charles Kanaʻina.
3. Charles Kanaina - Charles Kanaʻina was a man of chiefly lineage who married
Miriam Kekāuluohi. Their son, William Charles Lunalilo, was the sixth monarch
of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
Undated_Kanaina-Chamberlain
Date of Letter:
Undated
From:
Charles Kanaina [Charles Kanaʻina]
To:
Mi Kamalani [Mr. Levi Chamberlain]
Content Summary:
Charles Kanaʻina writes to Mr. Levi Chamberlain requesting shoes for a boy, David.
Typescript:
[Page 1 of 1, left side]
[Letter Cover]
5/1
Na
Mi Kamalani
5/5
[Page 1 of 1, right side]
Auhea oe e Mi Kama
lani, ke noi aku nei
au ia oe, i Kamaa
no kuu keiki no
David, ua ilihune
i ke kamaa ole, i na
i haawi mai oe, e
hai mai oe iau i ke
Dala e make ai.
Charles Kanaina
Translation:
[Page 1 of 1, left side]
[Letter Cover]
5/1
Na
Mi Kamalani
5/5
[Page 1 of 1, right side]
Listen, Mr. Chamberlain,
I am requesting from you shoes for my boy, David. He is lacking any shoes. If you would
furnish them, let me know the amount of money you would like.
Charles Kanaina
Notes:
1. Mi Kamalani - Mr. Levi Chamberlain was a member of the second company of
missionaries, superintendent of secular affairs for the mission and served as a
missionary teacher.
2. David - In his 1874 book "The Friend, Or, Advocate of Truth," M.T.C. Gould
references David as a first son of Kanaʻina and Kekāuluohi who died young, and
this could be a reference to him. It could also possibly refer to David Kalākaua,
later the seventh sovereign of the kingdom, who was a student at the Chiefs’
Children’s School in Honolulu and not directly related to Charles Kanaʻina.
3. Charles Kanaina - Charles Kanaʻina was a man of chiefly lineage who married
Miriam Kekāuluohi. Their son, William Charles Lunalilo, was the sixth monarch
of the Hawaiian Kingdom.