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[HAWAII]. EVERETT, MAJOR EDWARD. Series of six manuscript accounts of excursions to the Hawaiian volcanoes, 1890-95, together 114 pages on 78 leaves, 8vo & 4to, with 2 manuscript maps, plus various ephemera: an 8vo pamphlet, "The Great Volcano of Kilauea...by J.M.MacDonald, a California journalist", Honolulu, 1849, original printed wrappers, upper cover detached, a color-printed folding brochure for the Oceanic Steamship Co. [ca.1889], and 9 newspaper clippings (1889), of which eight relate to Hawaiian volcanoes.
Everett was a cousin of the orator and Harvard president of the same name. This detailed and colorful relation of his trip to Hawaii in 1890 abounds in interesting descriptions of Hawaiian society as well as of the islands' physical features. The account of his "excursion to the active crater of Kilauea" is present in three versions, of which the last one, written 5 years after the trip, contains an attempt at a geological analysis of the volcano, based on his readings of "Dana, Brigham, Judd and others".
Everett was a cousin of the orator and Harvard president of the same name. This detailed and colorful relation of his trip to Hawaii in 1890 abounds in interesting descriptions of Hawaiian society as well as of the islands' physical features. The account of his "excursion to the active crater of Kilauea" is present in three versions, of which the last one, written 5 years after the trip, contains an attempt at a geological analysis of the volcano, based on his readings of "Dana, Brigham, Judd and others".