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                  <text>�Letter Reference:
Undated_Kekuanaoa-Chamberlain.3
Date of Letter:
Undated
From:
Kekuanaoa [Mataio Kekūanāoʻa]
To:
Kamalani [Mr. Levi Chamberlain]
Content Summary:
Mataio Kekūanāoʻa writes to Mr. Levi Chamberlain requesting for 400 hundred feet of
pine lumber for the Paʻalua.
Typescript:
[Page 1 of 1, left side]
[Letter Cover]
Kekuanaoa
Na Mi kamalani
[Page 1 of 1, right side]
Aloha oe Kamalani
ehaawi mai oe ipapa
na'u no kuu wahi
moku no Paalua ipapa
paina ihoo kahi iniha
kama noanoa ieha ha
nele kapu wai. 400
Na Kekuanaoa
Translation:
[Page 1 of 1, left side]
[Cover Page]
Kekuanaoa
For Mr. Chamberlain
[Page 1 of 1, right side]
Greetings to you, Chamberlain,
Grant some lumber for me, for my ship, the Paʻalua, pine boards one inch thick,
four hundred board feet. 400.
By Kekuanaoa

�Notes:
1. Kamalani - 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. Kekuanaoa - M	&#13;  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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