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Letters from Honolulu

Title
Letters from Honolulu / written for the Sacramento Union by Mark Twain ; introduction by John W. Vandercook.
Author
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Publication
Honolulu : Thomas Nickerson, 1939

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Additional Authors
Vandercook, John W. (John Womack), 1902-1963.
Description
xv, 101 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
Uniform Title
Sacramento Union.
Subject
  • Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 > Correspondence
  • Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
  • Hornet (Clipper-ship)
  • Shipwrecks
  • Sugar trade > Hawaii
  • Whaling
  • Naufrages
  • Sucre > Industrie > Hawaii
  • Baleines > Chasse
  • shipwrecks
  • Sugar trade
  • Hawaii
Genre/Form
Personal correspondence.
Note
  • ''This edition is limited to one thousand copies.''
Contents
Letters from Honolulu. I. The burning of the clipper ship Hornet. II. The sugar industry. III. The whaling trade. IV. The importance of the Hawaiian trade.--Excerpts from the diaries of Captain Mitchell and the Ferguson brothers.--Mark Twain's concluding remarks, reprinted from Harper's new monthly magazine, December, 1866.
LCCN
39017121
OCLC
  • ocm02709833
  • 2709833
  • SCSB-9013297
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library