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                  <text>�Letter Reference:
1839_Oct18_Kanaina-Baldwin
Date of Letter:
October 18, 1839
From:
Charles Kanaina [Charles Kanaʻina]
To:
Balaina [Rev. Dwight Baldwin]
Content Summary:
Charles Kanaʻina writes to Rev. Dwight Baldwin responding to an issue about land.
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[Letter Cover]
Oct. 18th 1839
Kanaina
Na Baluina
Lahaina
Maui
Honolulu Okakob 18/39
Aloha oe Balaina, Ua
ike a'u i kau wahi olelo
ma kau palapala, no Mahoe.
Eia kou manao ia oe, ke
hooponopono nei na aina i
keia wa, nolaila, aole au
e ae aku i ko'u aina,
no'u no, pau keia.
Aloha oe me kau
wahine.
Na Charles Kanaina
Papu
Translation:
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�[Letter Cover]
October 18, 1839
Kanaina
For Baldwin
Lahaina
Maui
Honolulu October 18, 1839
Greetings to you, Baldwin,
I saw your statement in your letter regarding Mahoe. Here is my message to you. The
land is being dealt with at this time, so I will not grant my land. It is mine. This is done.
Regards to you and your wife.
From Charles Kanaina
Fort
Notes:
1. Balaina - Rev. Dwight Baldwin came to Hawaiʻi in 1831 with the fourth company of
missionaries and resided on Maui, stationed at Waineʻe Church.
2. Mahoe - Māhoe, a person mentioned in this letter, is not identified in this setting.
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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