# Letters from Hawaii > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Letters_from_Hawaii > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Letters_from_Hawaii.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_from_Hawaii > Source revision: 1333635815 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Book by Mark Twain Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii Cover of the 1966 edition Editor A. Grove Day Author Mark Twain Publisher Appleton-Century Publication date 1966 A collection of letters originally written in 1866. ***Letters from Hawaii*** is a collection of 25 letters that [Mark Twain](/source/Mark_Twain) wrote in 1866 from the [Hawaiian Islands](/source/Hawaiian_Islands) as a special [correspondent](/source/Correspondent) for *[The Sacramento Union](/source/The_Sacramento_Union)*. The letters, written early in Twain's career, were not published as a book until 1937, nearly three decades after his death. They have been collected under several titles, most recently *Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii*. Twain used his experiences in the Hawaiian Islands and the letters themselves as the basis for some of his early lectures, as well as the foundation for portions of *[Roughing It](/source/Roughing_It)* (1872).[1] ## Summary During his four-month and a day stay in the Hawaiian Islands, then called the [Sandwich Islands](/source/Hawaiian_Islands), Twain visited the islands of [Oahu](/source/Oahu), [Maui](/source/Maui), and [Hawaii](/source/Hawaii_(island)). ### Oahu Mark Twain arrives in [Oahu](/source/Oahu) under the reign of [Kamehameha V](/source/Kamehameha_V) and wrote Letters 1-17. He climbed [Diamond Head](/source/Diamond_Head%2C_Hawaii), visited the newly formed Kingdom of Hawaii legislature, etc. ### Maui Mark Twain visited [Haleakala](/source/Haleakala), [Maui](/source/Maui), but left no letter on his itinerary of his Maui visit, except some statistics of sugar production in Maui (Letter 23). ### Hawaii In Letters 18 to 25, Mark Twain writes about his visits to [Kailua Kona](/source/Kailua_Kona), [Kealakekua Bay](/source/Kealakekua_Bay), and [Kilauea](/source/Kilauea). ## Publication History The letters were first collected in book form, albeit with some omissions, in 1937 by [Grabhorn Press](/source/Grabhorn_Institute), in a limited edition, under the title *Letters from the Sandwich Islands*. The first [trade edition](/source/Paperback#Trade_paperback) was published the following year by the [Stanford University Press](/source/Stanford_University_Press). In 1939, Thomas Nickerson published a limited edition titled *Letters from the Honolulu*. The first complete collection of the letters came in 1947, in an appendix to [Walter F. Frear's](/source/Walter_F._Frear) *Mark Twain and Hawaii*, published by [the Lakeside Press](/source/Lakeside_Press).[2] In 1966, 100 years after their original publication, [Appleton-Century](/source/D._Appleton_%26_Company) published the complete letters as *Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii*, edited and with an introduction by [A. Grove Day](/source/A._Grove_Day).[3] ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [Day, A. Grove](/source/A._Grove_Day) (1987). "Innocent Abroad in Hawaii: Mark Twain". [*Mad about Islands: Novelists of a Vanished Pacific*](http://archive.org/details/madaboutislandsn0000daya). Honolulu, Hawaii: Mutual Publishing. p. 91. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-935180-46-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-935180-46-6). [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [17445516](https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/17445516). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-:0_2-0)** [Frear, Walter Francis](/source/Walter_F._Frear) (1947). *Mark Twain and Hawaii*. Chicago: [The Lakeside Press](/source/Lakeside_Press). pp. 256–261. [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [1810290](https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/1810290). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [Twain, Mark](/source/Mark_Twain) (1966). [Day, A. Grove](/source/A._Grove_Day) (ed.). [*Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii*](http://archive.org/details/marktwainsletter0000twai_u0q3). New York: [Appleton-Century](/source/D._Appleton_%26_Company). [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [271356](https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/271356). ## External links - [*Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii*](https://librivox.org/search?title=Mark+Twain's+Letters+from+Hawaii&author=Twain&reader=&keywords=&genre_id=0&status=all&project_type=either&recorded_language=&sort_order=catalog_date&search_page=1&search_form=advanced) public domain audiobook at [LibriVox](/source/LibriVox) - [Mark Twain *Letters from Hawaii* Study Guide](http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-mark-twains-letters-from-hawaii/#gsc.tab=0) - [The text of *Letters from Hawaii*](http://www.twainquotes.com/sduindex.html) v t e Mark Twain Bibliography Novels The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Prince and the Pauper Adventures of Huckleberry Finn A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court The American Claimant Tom Sawyer Abroad Pudd'nhead Wilson Tom Sawyer, Detective Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc A Double Barrelled Detective Story A Horse's Tale The Mysterious Stranger Hellfire Hotchkiss Short stories "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" "Cannibalism in the Cars" "A Literary Nightmare" "A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage" "The Great Revolution in Pitcairn" 1601 "The Stolen White Elephant" "Luck" "The Million Pound Bank Note" "A Double Barrelled Detective Story" "Those Extraordinary Twins" "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" "A Dog's Tale" "Extracts from Adam's Diary" "The War Prayer" "Eve's Diary" "Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven" "My Platonic Sweetheart" "Advice for Good Little Girls" Collections Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance Sketches New and Old Mark Twain's Library of Humor Merry Tales The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories Plays Is He Dead? Essays "The Awful German Language" "On the Decay of the Art of Lying" "Advice to Youth" How to Tell a Story and Other Essays "Concerning the Jews" "To the Person Sitting in Darkness" "Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany" "What Is Man?" "The United States of Lyncherdom" "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" Letters from the Earth Nonfiction Territorial Enterprise letters Letters from Hawaii The Innocents Abroad Roughing It Old Times on the Mississippi A Tramp Abroad Life on the Mississippi Following the Equator Is Shakespeare Dead? Autobiography of Mark Twain (Chapters from My Autobiography) King Leopold's Soliloquy The Private History of a Campaign That Failed Christian Science Speeches "Some Thoughts on the Science of Onanism" "Votes for Women" Places and events Family cabin Birthplace State Historic Site State Park Boyhood home and museum Mark Twain Cave Mark Twain in Nevada Territorial Enterprise Sagebrush School Quarry Farm Mark Twain House Stormfield Twain–Ament indemnities controversy Popular culture Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Mark Twain Readers Award Mark Twain Tonight! The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944) The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985) Mark Twain (2001 documentary) Twain and Shaw Do Lunch (2011 play) Mark Twain: The Musical Family Olivia Langdon Clemens (wife) Susy Clemens (daughter) Clara Clemens (daughter) Jean Clemens (daughter) John M. Clemens (father) Jane Lampton Clemens (mother) Orion Clemens (brother) Related Jap Herron Center For Mark Twain Studies Mark Twain (book) Mark Twain National Forest Mark Twain Tree National Tom Sawyer Days --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Letters from Hawaii](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_from_Hawaii) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_from_Hawaii?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.