The Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Thursday, January 22, 1959 - "Clarice B. Taylor's Tales about Hawaii"
Treasured in the collection of family letters preserved by young David Forbes are those of his grandfather, the Reverend Alexander O. Forbes, written to his wife Maria Jane Chamberlain.
The Reverend Forbes was the son of missionaries Cochran Forbes and his wife was the daughter of missionaries Levi and Maria Patton Chamberlain.
The letters speak of changing fashion. Whereas the missionary parents had addressed their mates as "Dear friends," or "Dear companions" their children addressed their's as "My darling wife" or "My dearest one."
Reverend Forbes signed himself "Ever your own."
TRAVELS MUCH
As a missionary, Reverend Forbes traveled a great deal about the Islands and wrote letters at each stop to his "dearest one."
In the letter written from Honolulu June 18, 1877, he gives us a picture of another set of missionaries - the Hawaiians who went to the Marshall Islands. His news is interesting as it concerns Missionary Simeon P.K. Nawaa, father of the present Simeon K. Nawaa who is living today at the age of 88.
"I preached at Kaumakapili in the morning - the people at Kaumakapili were very cordial - they send a great deal of aloha - the old church is kept in good repair, and looks very nicely.
SHIP SAILS
"The Morning Star got off last Thursday - Dr. and Mrs. Pease, Mrs. Logan and adopted child, Rev. S. P. Kaaia and wife, and Mr. Nawaa & wife went in her.
"Nawaa, you know, has married the widow of his brother, Kahelemauna, who returned her in the M. Star last trip. - Nawaa sent a great deal of aloha to you.
"I met Lukia (Princess Ruth) there that day and have seen her twice since - she appears more steady and does not look so hard and dissipated as she did. I have not been able yet to find out anything about her present mode of life."
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Treasured in the collection of family letters preserved by young David Forbes are those of his grandfather, the Reverend Alexander O. Forbes, written to his wife Maria Jane Chamberlain.
The Reverend Forbes was the son of missionaries Cochran Forbes and his wife was the daughter of missionaries Levi and Maria Patton Chamberlain.
The letters speak of changing fashion. Whereas the missionary parents had addressed their mates as "Dear friends," or "Dear companions" their children addressed their's as "My darling wife" or "My dearest one."
Reverend Forbes signed himself "Ever your own."
TRAVELS MUCH
As a missionary, Reverend Forbes traveled a great deal about the Islands and wrote letters at each stop to his "dearest one."
In the letter written from Honolulu June 18, 1877, he gives us a picture of another set of missionaries - the Hawaiians who went to the Marshall Islands. His news is interesting as it concerns Missionary Simeon P.K. Nawaa, father of the present Simeon K. Nawaa who is living today at the age of 88.
"I preached at Kaumakapili in the morning - the people at Kaumakapili were very cordial - they send a great deal of aloha - the old church is kept in good repair, and looks very nicely.
SHIP SAILS
"The Morning Star got off last Thursday - Dr. and Mrs. Pease, Mrs. Logan and adopted child, Rev. S. P. Kaaia and wife, and Mr. Nawaa & wife went in her.
"Nawaa, you know, has married the widow of his brother, Kahelemauna, who returned her in the M. Star last trip. - Nawaa sent a great deal of aloha to you.
"I met Lukia (Princess Ruth) there that day and have seen her twice since - she appears more steady and does not look so hard and dissipated as she did. I have not been able yet to find out anything about her present mode of life."
Next: Court News
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