The David Golden Collection of Hawaiian Stamps and Postal History continued...

**Inter-Island Mail**
Lot	Sym.	Lot Description
37°		Inter-Island: Maui to Oahu. Four-page folded letter datelined "Lahaina July 1st, 1823" from Clarissa Lyman Richards, wife of the Reverend William Richards, to Elizabeth Bishop in "Honoruru Oahu", she writes to her friend (in part): "My dear friend enquires if I have experienced any new and unforseen missionary trials -- trials that I did not anticipate when entering on the work. All that I have seen and experienced has not yet altered my previous opinion that all mankind are by nature supremely selfish. But had I embarked a few months earlier I should have been astonished at beholding on missionary ground any exhibition of a selfish and depraved heart. I am indebted to the kindness of a christian brother, one who had seen much of the world, & had been a missionary himself, for correct views on this subject as well as for much useful information. How lamentable that those who follow in the steps of apostles and martyrs exhibit so little of their spirit! I have daily distressing proof of the desperate wickedness of my own heart and the remains of that selfish disposition which is indeed the bane of spiritual enjoyment." etc., usual toning for this correspondence, address panel separated, very scarce, ex Honolulu Advertiser (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	E. 750-1,000 SOLD for $650.00 Will close during Public Auction
38°		Inter-Island: Kailua to Kauai. Small folded letter datelined "Kairua Feb. 20, 1825" from Mrs. E. E. Bishop to Mrs. Whitney in Kauai, splitting along folds prevents us from reading contents due to its frailty, a scarce early inter-island use, for many early letters the Hawaiian names were spelled phonetically based on native pronunciation, ex Van Dyke (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	E. 500-750 SOLD for $400.00 Will close during Public Auction
39°		Inter-Island: Waikea to Kailua. Folded letter datelined "Waikea April 1, 1825" and addressed to Mrs. E. E. Bishop from M. B. Goodrich, primarily about family and some missionary duties (the addressee is his sister and pregnant), some minor splitting along folds, tear at top, otherwise Very Fine, scarce early inter-island letter, ex Van Dyke (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	E. 500-750 SOLD for $400.00 Will close during Public Auction
40°		Inter-Island: Kauai to Kailua. Folded letter datelined "Kauai Dec. 11, 1826" from M. L. Whitney to Mrs. E. E. Bishop, primarily about loneliness and family issues, some acidification and minor splitting along folds, still Fine early inter-island use, ex Van Dyke (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	E. 500-750 SOLD for $500.00 Will close during Public Auction
41°		Inter-Island: Kailua to Oahu. Small folded letter from Lucy Thurston in Kailua to Delia Stone Bishop on Oahu, datelined "Kailua Dec. 16, 1829", letter records two instances of adultery: "One of the females who came up from Oahu on board that vessel is now paying the penalty of a broken law -- the Capt. her seducer. I must add still more -- our own beloved Thomas Hopu is now suspended from the church, has been put in irons... having acknowledged himself guilty of breaking the seventh commandment. He appears a real penitent, much borne down both in body & mind. Indeed it is affecting to see him. His seducer & accomplice is one of the most interesting women of Kaawaloa, & a few weeks previous to the affair, numbered among their converts. Her husband & Delia [Hopu] were both at Oahu." etc., lettersheet toned and minor splitting along folds, otherwise Fine, Thomas Hopu was a Christian native whose early life included 12 sea voyages and being captured four times by the British during the War of 1812, later he was at the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall Conn. and came with the Pioneer Company of missionaries in 1819, serving as an interpreter for the Thurstons, ex Honolulu Advertiser (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	E. 750-1,000 SOLD for $1,100.00 Will close during Public Auction
42°		Inter-Island: Honolulu to Kailua. Folded letter datelined "Honolulu April 3" (1833) from Laura Judd to Delia Stone Bishop in Kailua, both members of the Third Company of missionaries in 1828, in addition to inviting the Bishops to visit, she notes that "a Theatre is opened at the King's Palace, for moral improvement , so said, and the prospect is, that if we add the short syllable in to the moral it is accomplishing the object for which it is established", minor toning, Fine, ex Honolulu Advertiser (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	E. 500-750 SOLD for $425.00 Will close during Public Auction
43°		Inter-Island: Wailuku to Lahainahuna. Folded letter datelined "Wailuku Sept. 20th 1843" from Rev. Dwight Baldwin to Mrs. Charlotte F. Baldwin, asking his wife to bring him fresh clothes if she should come to visit him, faint vertical file folds, some slight toning, sealed vertical tear at center runs height of the cover, otherwise Fine (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	E. 300-400 SOLD for $250.00 Will close during Public Auction
44°		Inter-Island: Punahou to Lahaina. Folded letter from Rev. D. Dole datelined "Punahou Oct. 2, 1852" and addressed to Rev. D. Baldwin at Lahaina, primarily about health and business, overall toning, some splitting along folds expertly reinforced, otherwise Very Fine (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	E. 300-400 SOLD for $250.00 Will close during Public Auction
45°		Intra-Island: Honolulu to Punahou. Folded letter datelined "Honolulu 1 November 1856" to Punahou, written in native Hawaiian, some minor splitting along folds and few toned spots, Very Fine appearance, ex Van Dyke (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	E. 300-400 SOLD for $475.00 Will close during Public Auction
46°		*HonoluluHawaiian-IslandsMar. 10.* Bold strike of red circular datestamp on folded letter datelined "Punahou March 16th 1852" and addressed to Rev. Dwight Baldwin at Lahaina, one-page letter from his 15-year-old son in school, light vertical file folds, some toning, otherwise Very Fine, possibly the earliest use of the "HonoluluHawaiian-Islands" circular datestamp ordered by Postmaster Whitney, the earliest date for the "U.S. Postage Paid" version is Feb. 10, 1852, in addition to its early date, the example offered here is remarkable because it is struck on an inter-island letter, it was used almost exclusively on mail to other countries, the anachronism of the "Mar. 10" date in the postmark and the March 16 letter date can only be explained with "they made a mistake", ex Van Dyke (with his backstamp) (Image)* Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	E. 1,000-1,500 SOLD for $4,250.00 Will close during Public Auction
47°		"Wailuku P.O. Mar. 5". Manuscript postmark and "Free" on light blue folded letter datelined "Wailuku Mar. 3d 1851" from Rev. E. Bailey to Rev. D. Baldwin at Lahaina (both towns located on Maui), letter discusses land matters, light horizontal file fold VERY FINE. THIS IS THE EARLIEST FORM OF WAILUKU POSTMARK, APPLIED BY THE FIRST "UNOFFICIAL" POSTMASTER, REVEREND EDWARD W. BAILEY. WE KNOW OF ONE OTHER EXAMPLE. According to Gregory, the Wailuku post office was officially established in 1859. Prior to 1859, the Reverend Edward W. Bailey served as an unofficial postmaster. This Wailuku postmark, the later of two examples known to us, is in the hand of the Reverend Bailey. The "Free" was not necessary since inter- and intra-island mail was postage-free by legislative order until 1859, but Rev. Bailey wrote it on both postmarked letters (the other example was last offered in Sale 931, lot 4444). Ex Van Dyke (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	E. 2,000-3,000 CLOSED Will close during Public Auction

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