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                  <text>�Letter Reference:
1842_Mar25_Kekuanaoa-Chamberlain
Date of Letter:
March 25, 1842
From:
Kekuanaoa [Mataio Kekūanāoʻa]
To:
Kemelena wahine [Mrs. Maria Chamberlain]
Content Summary:
Mataio Kekūanāoʻa writes to Mrs. Chamberlain requesting flour.
Typescript:
[Page 1 of 1]
[Letter cover]
[In another hand, darker ink]
Kekuanaoa
Mar. 25/42
Kemelena
Stone House
Ka Pila $1.,08
Hale o ke Kiaaina
Maraki 25
E Kemelena wahine
E haawi mai oe
i pakeke palena palaoa
na'u i hookahi
Na'u
na Kekuanaoa
Translation:
[Page 1 of 1]
[Letter cover]
Kekuanaoa
Mar. 25/42

�Chamberlain
Stone House
Ka Pila $1.,08
House of the Governor
March 25
Mrs. Chamberlain,
Provide a bucket of flour for me, just one.
From me,
Kekuanaoa
Notes:
1. Kemelena wahine - Miss. Maria Patton, who came with the third company of
missionaries, married Mr. Levi Chamberlain, a member of the second company, after her
arrival here in Hawaiʻi.
2. Kekuanaoa - Mataio Kekūanāoʻa, of chiefly descent, was first married to Kalani Pauahi
and then to Elizabeth Kīnaʻu. He was the Royal Governor of the island of Oʻahu from
1834-1868, a member of the House of Nobles and Privy Council, the 6th Kuhina Nui
(regent) and the father of Kamehameha IV and Kamehameha V.

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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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