Letters from Hawaii
Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii is a collection of 25 letters that Mark Twain wrote from Hawaii in 1866 as a special correspondent for the Sacramento Union newspaper. The 25 letters, written during Twain's four-month visit, were not published as a book until 1947.[1]
During his four-month and a day stay in the Hawaiian Islands, then called the Sandwich Islands, Twain visited the islands of Oahu, Maui, and Hawaii.
Oahu
[edit]Mark Twain arrives in Oahu under the reign of Kamehameha IV and wrote Letters 1-17. He climbed Diamond Head, visited the newly formed Kingdom of Hawaii legislature, etc.
Maui
[edit]Mark Twain visited Haleakala, Maui, but left no letter on his itinerary of his Maui visit, except some statistics of sugar production in Maui (Letter 23).
Hawaii
[edit]In Letters 18 to 25, Mark Twain writes about his visits to Kailua Kona, Kealakekua Bay, and Kilauea.
References
[edit]- ^ Edited by Walter Francis Frear, Mark Twain and Hawaii, Appendix C1-C25 (Lakeside Press, 1947)
External links
[edit]Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii public domain audiobook at LibriVox
- Mark Twain Letters from Hawaii Study Guide
- The text of Letters from Hawaii