Item #329931 First [through Forty-Eighth] Annual Report, Hawaiian Mission Children's Society. Hawaii.

First [through Forty-Eighth] Annual Report, Hawaiian Mission Children's Society.

Honolulu: 1853-1900.

Price: $3,500.00


About the item

Nearly complete run from 1853 to 1900, lacking only the Fourteenth Annual Report from 1866. 47 vols. 12mo. Original wrappers in various colors, mostly in very good condition. Forbes 1942; Carter, p. 81; Hunnewell, p. 65.

Item #329931

"This society was formed in 1852, in the 'Old Mission School House' partly as a social organization but more specifically to lend support to the Micronesian mission then getting started ... reports have excerpts from letters from Luther Halsey Gulick and several native Hawaiian missionaries stationed in Micronesia. An address by Hiram Bingham, Jr. on 'the cultivation of the Missionary Spirit' is in the 1857 report. The 1858 report includes an essay by Orramel Gulick on his trip to Micronesia. The president's reports, found in almost every issue, have continued references to local social and religious interests in Hawaii ... The birth, marriage, and death notices and obituaries of these missionary 'Cousins' found in issue after issue are a major source of information on missionary family histories ... In the twenty-fifth annual report (1876) an essay by 'Cousin' General Samuel C. Armstrong discusses his educational work with [African Americans] at Hampton, Virginia ..." (Forbes).