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[HAWAII]. EMMA LILIUOKALINI, last Queen of Hawaii. Autograph letter signed (with her earlier name "Kaleleonalani") to Mr. Manley Hopkins, Upper Gore Lodge, 27 June 1866. 2 pages, 8vo, 180 x 112 mm. (7 1/16 x 4 7/16 in.), on her monogrammed black-bordered stationery, pasted slip signed "Emma R. London 1865" on recto of integral blank leaf, traces of glue on verso, short marginal tear and small fold break. "You can tell any person who wishes to see me to call at any time from 1 till 3 o-clock in the afternoon as I am then always at home. If you would send the pictures of my husband and child to me today I should like it much. I will be pleased indeed to see Dr. Ord and also Mr. Mist. Perhaps the latter had news of his brother-in-law's death, Mr. Samuel Dowsett, who died in San Francisco California. He married Mrs. Mist's sister Mary McKibbin...".
Emma Na'ea Rooke, of mixed Hawaiian-English parentage, had been raised in Honolulu by her aunt Grace Kamaikui and her uncle Dr. T.C.B. Rooke, an English physician. She and her husband Alexander Liholiho, later Kamehameha IV, reigned as King and Queen of Hawaii from 1855 to 1863. In the Hawaiian tradition, Emma took the name Kaleleokalani upon the death of her son Prince Albert in 1862 or 1863. After her husband's death in 1863, she resided in England and the south of France until the death of her autocratic brother King Kalakaua in 1891 (reigned 1874-91), when she regained the throne. She immediately initiated efforts to eliminate American influence and establish an absolute monarchy, but was deposed in 1893 in an American-supported coup. The ex-Queen was arrested in January 1895 for conspiring to restore the monarchy and was imprisoned for nine months before being pardoned in September. Hawaii was annexed as a U.S. territory three years later.
Emma Na'ea Rooke, of mixed Hawaiian-English parentage, had been raised in Honolulu by her aunt Grace Kamaikui and her uncle Dr. T.C.B. Rooke, an English physician. She and her husband Alexander Liholiho, later Kamehameha IV, reigned as King and Queen of Hawaii from 1855 to 1863. In the Hawaiian tradition, Emma took the name Kaleleokalani upon the death of her son Prince Albert in 1862 or 1863. After her husband's death in 1863, she resided in England and the south of France until the death of her autocratic brother King Kalakaua in 1891 (reigned 1874-91), when she regained the throne. She immediately initiated efforts to eliminate American influence and establish an absolute monarchy, but was deposed in 1893 in an American-supported coup. The ex-Queen was arrested in January 1895 for conspiring to restore the monarchy and was imprisoned for nine months before being pardoned in September. Hawaii was annexed as a U.S. territory three years later.