| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
"The family of four is reduced", 1880 -- Rooke House under quarantine : a diary and letters, 1881 -- Town gossip and an excursion to Maui : letters of June-December 1881 -- A busy spring and summer : letters of February-July 1882 -- Summer entertainments, church matters, and a visit to Kāhala : letters of August-December 1882 -- The year of the coronation : letters of 1883 -- The gathering clouds : a diary and letters, 1884 -- The fateful trip to Kāhala, July-August 1884 -- Last letters and the final farewell, 1885 -- "The good queen is gone" : a letter from the priory,1885 -- Lying in state at Rooke House, and at Kawaiahaʻo Church (1885) -- Queen Emma's funeral at Kawaiahaʻo Church (1885) |
| Summary |
This ambitious volume assembled by scholar David W. Forbes features a collection of ninety previously unpublished letters, as well as excerpts from two diaries, written between 1881 and 1885 by Hawaiian royal consort Queen Emma Kaleleonālani. In Haste with Aloha illuminates the last five years of the Queen's life and makes available an important record of royal social life and customs in nineteenth-century Hawai'i. Much of her earlier correspondence has been published in two books by the late Alfons L. Korn: The Victorian Visitors: An Account of the Hawaiian Kingdom, 1861-1866 and News from Molokai: Letters between Peter Kaeo and Queen Emma, 1873-1876. In her letters, almost all of which were written in English, Queen Emma provides a rare account of ali'i (royal) perspective, endowing modern readers and researchers with insight far beyond the limited available documentation of public speeches or printed statements. Besides the nuances of correspondence between the Queen and her recipients, there is much to be considered and analyzed in her descriptions of ali'i, many of them relatives to Emma, including Bernice Pauahi Bishop and Ruth Ke'elikōlani. With few comparable Hawaiian historical primary resource texts in print, In Haste with Aloha is a welcome addition, making accessible a preserved and treasured collection of documents drawn primarily from the Hawai'i State Archives, along with diaries in Bishop Museum Library and Archives. Fully transcribed and with annotation by Forbes, editor of the monumental four-volume Hawaiian National Bibliography and annotator of Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen Liliuokalani, this text sheds light on the lives of Hawai'i's ruling class in the decade leading up to climactic political transition |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 12, 2017) |
| Subject |
Emma, Queen, consort of Kamehameha IV, King of the Hawaiian Islands, 1836-1885 -- Correspondence
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Emma, Queen, consort of Kamehameha IV, King of the Hawaiian Islands, 1836-1885 -- Diaries
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Emma, Queen, consort of Kamehameha IV, King of the Hawaiian Islands, 1836-1885 fast |
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HISTORY -- Oceania.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Royalty.
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Kings and rulers -- Social life and customs
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Hawaii -- Kings and rulers -- Social life and customs -- Sources
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Hawaii
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| Genre/Form |
Diaries
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Personal correspondence
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Sources
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Forbes, David W., editor.
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Container of (work): Emma, Queen, consort of Kamehameha IV, King of the Hawaiian Islands, 1836-1885.
Correspondence. Selections
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Container of (work): Emma, Queen, consort of Kamehameha IV, King of the Hawaiian Islands, 1836-1885.
Diaries. Selections
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| ISBN |
9780824857844 |
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0824857844 |
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9780824857868 |
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0824857860 |
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