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                  <text>��Letter Reference:
1843_Apr07_Kekuaiwa-Cooke
Date of Letter:
April 07, 1843
From:
Moses Kekuaiwa [Moses Kekūāiwa]
To:
Mr. Amos S. Cooke
Content Summary:
Moses Kekuaiwa writes to Mr. Amos S. Cooke about a visit in Lahaina, attending an assembly,
and other events on their trip.
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Moses Kekuaiwa
Lahaina Apl 07/43
Recd. 13th, ansd. 14th
Mr. Amos S. Cooke
Honolulu Oahu
Wainee Lahaina April 7
Dear teacher,
We received your
letters ^on Monday afternoon. Kaahaolelo had just began &amp; the
King just came down from
Wailuku on Monday morning
At 10 ½ o'clock while we in the
ahaolelo. We did did not get long
very fast it has just began.
The little boys act more
better now they us &amp; they
do just as we told them
to do. I received by John Ii
on Monday morning while

�we are going to the ahaolelo.
The ahaolelo began at 10 and
out at 10'clock. John try all
he can to pleased us &amp; we
tried all we can to make him
happy. I have shown those two
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letters to Dr. Judd &amp; he says that
he was very happy to see it.
But he did not sleep with
us, he had nothing to do
with us. We are still readig
our ^Bible on the Book of Psalms
100 chapters. We did written
our journals any. But Dr. Judd
like to have write but they
not all here. I send 6 $ by
John Ii’s man for my flute.
Kekauluohi pay it for me
&amp; for Lot. We spend our first
two nights &amp; Luaehu. But
Dr. Judd. slept every nights.
When came back from the
ahaolelo we found was hurt on
his eye lids [sketch] this is a picture
of it. They are great many haole
coming our Yard &amp; are talk
w^ith them some is a good man
some was not. Yours, affection Moses
Notes:
1. Moses Kekuaiwa - Moses Kekūāiwa was the son of Kīnaʻu and Mataio Kekūanāoʻa and
he was the brother of Lot Kapuāiwa. Both boys attended the Chiefs' Children's School in
Honolulu.
2. Teacher - Mr. Amos Starr Cooke was the headmaster of the Chiefs' Children's School.
3. Kaahaolelo - Ka ʻaha ʻōlelo, lit. "the conference," could be a legislative session, an
assembly or a council meeting, depending on who was in attendance. The reference is
uncertain.

�4. John Ii - John Papa ʻĪʻī began his service in the royal court when he served as an
attendant to Kalanikualiholiho, Kamehameha II. Īʻī later became a trusted advisor and
chief in the court of Kauikeaouli, Kamehameha III, and continued to serve the sovereigns
of Hawaiʻi until his death in 1870.
5. Dr. Judd - Dr. Gerrit Parmele Judd was a member of the third company of missionaries
and a medical doctor who left the mission to take up a number of positions with the
Hawaiian government.
6. Kekauluohi - Miriam ʻAuhea Kekāuluohi, mother of William Charles Lunalilo, became
the Kuhina Nui, Regent of the Hawaiian Kingdom, in 1839, taking on the name
Kaʻahumanu III.
7. Lot - Lot Kapuāiwa was the son of Kīnaʻu and Mataio Kekūanāoʻa. He was the brother of
Moses Kekūāiwa and would later become Kamehameha V.
8. Luaehu - The capital district of the kingdom, at Lahaina, Maui, until 1845 when the
capital was moved to Honolulu.

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