Sale 769 — The Honolulu Advertiser Collection
Sale Date — Tuesday, 7 November, 1995
Category — Inter- and Intra-Island Mail
Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
2048°


E. 1,000-1,500
1,000
2049°


E. 750-1,000
2,300
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Inter-Island Usage: Hawaii to Oahu. Small folded letter from Lucy Thurston in Kailua, to Delia Stone Bishop, dated Dec. 16, 1829, recording two instances of adultery: "One of the females who came up from Oahu on board that vessel is now paying the penalty of a broken law - the Capt. her seducer. I must add still more - our own beloved Thomas Hopu is now suspended from the church, has been put in irons...having acknowledged himself guilty of breaking the seventh commandment. He appears a real penitent, much borne down both in body & mind. Indeed it is affecting to see him. His seducer & accomplice is one of the most interesting women of Kaawaloa, & a few weeks previous to the affair, numbered among their converts. Her husband & Delia [Hopu] were both at Oahu." etc.; lettersheet toned, otherwise Fine. Thomas Hopu was a Christian native whose early life included 12 sea voyages and being captured four times by the British during the War of 1812. Later he was later at the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Conn. and came with the Pioneer Company of missionaries in 1819, serving as an interpreter for the Thurstons
E. 1,000-1,500
1,000
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Inter-Island Usage: Honolulu to Kailua. Folded letter dated Apr. 3 (1833) from Laura Judd in Honolulu to Delia Stone Bishop in Kailua, both members of the Third Company of missionaries in 1828. In addition to inviting the Bishops to visit, she notes that "a Theatre is opened at the King's Palace, for moral improvement, so said, and the prospect is, that if we add the short syllable im to the moral it is accomplishing the object for which it is established"; minor toning, Fine
E. 600-800
500
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Intra-Island Usage: Hilo to Waimea, Hawaii. Three-page folded letter dated October 26, 1836 - sympathetic contents from Sarah Joiner Lyman to Betsey Lyons, after the death of her second son, Luke, only a few months after his birth on April 4, 1836; small sealed tear at top, Fine
E. 250-350
210
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Inter-Island Usage: Kauai to Hawaii. Three-page folded letter datelined "Waioli Nov. 2, 1846" from Abner Wilcox, a teacher at the Select School for Hawaiian boys from Niihau and Kauai, to Dr. Seth Andrews in Kailua, offering his sympathies on death of his wife; some tiny ink erosion with contents showing through on face, Fine
E. 250-350
575
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E. 500-600
750
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E. 250-350
500
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E. 200-250
325
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