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                  <text>�Letter Reference:
1837_Undated_Kanaina-Chamberlain
Date of Letter:
1837
From:
Charles Kanaina [Charles Kanaʻina]
To:
Kemalani [Mr. Levi Chamberlain]
Content Summary:
Charles Kana‘ina asks Levi Chamberlain to clarify funding for ship passage.
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[Letter Cover]
Kanaina
1837
Na Kemalani
E Kemalani, E hoakaka mai oe ia'u i
ke kokua o kahi
moku a kaua i olelo
ai a holo ae ai o
Mi Kalina ma. i ike
a'u, oia ko'u wahi
manao ^me ke Aloha aku
a me ka oluolu no
hoi.
Charles Kanaina
[In a different hand]
July 26 promised to
give him $70-.
Translation:
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[Letter Cover]
Kanaina
1837
For Chamberlain
Chamberlain,

�Clarify to me the assistance for the ship we spoke of, upon which Mr. Green and
company would sail, so that I know. That is my short message to you with regard and kindness.
Charles Kanaina
[In a different hand]
July 26 promised to
give him $70-.
Notes:
1. Kemalani – Mr. Levi Chamberlain was a member of the second company of missionaries.
He was the superintendent of secular affairs for the mission and served as a missionary
teacher.
2. Mi Kalina ma – This refers to Rev. Jonathan S. Green and those associated with him.
Rev. Green was in the third company of missionaries.
3. Charles Kanaina – Charles Kanaʻina was a man of chiefly lineage who married Miriam
ʻAuhea Kekāuluohi. Their son, Willian Charles Lunalilo, became the sixth monarch of
the Hawaiian Kingdom.

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              <text>Hawaiian Evangelical Association Archives, 1853-1947. Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Library at the Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives </text>
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