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                  <text>�Letter Reference:	&#13;  
Undated_Kanaina-Cooke	&#13;  
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Date of Letter:	&#13;  
Undated	&#13;  
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From:	&#13;  
Charles Kanaina [Charles Kanaʻina]	&#13;  
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To: 	&#13;  
Mi Kuke [Mr. Amos Starr Cooke]	&#13;  
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Content Summary:	&#13;  
Charles Kanaʻina writes to Mr. Amos Cooke requesting he sell him roofing
shingles.	&#13;  
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Typescript:	&#13;  
[Page 1 of 1]	&#13;  
Mi Kuke	&#13;  
Aloha oe	&#13;  
Ina he pili hale kekahi	&#13;  
ou, e kuai kaua, e hai mai i ke 	&#13;  
kumu kuai E haawi mai i paka	&#13;  
ai	&#13;  
Charles Kanaina	&#13;  
	&#13;  

Translation:	&#13;  
[Page 1 of 1] 	&#13;  
Mr. Cooke	&#13;  
Greetings to you,	&#13;  
If house shingles are something you might have, let us do business.
Tell me the price. Give that to me so as to begin.	&#13;  
Charles Kanaina	&#13;  
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Notes: 	&#13;  
1. Mi Kuke - Amos Starr Cooke came to Hawaiʻi in 1837 with the eighth
company of missionaries. He later ran the Chiefs' Children's School
with his wife, Juliette Montague Cooke. After retiring from the
school, he went into business, partnering with S. N. Castle to form the
company Castle and Cooke in 1851.

�2. Kanaina - Charles Kanaʻina was a chief, husband of Miriam
Kekāuluohi. Their son, Willian Charles Lunalilo, later 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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