(HAWAII) Damon Samuel C; editor The Friend A Monthly Journal

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(HAWAII.) Damon, Samuel C.; editor. The Friend, A Monthly Journal. Volume VII. 4to, modern 1/2 morocco; intermittent foxing and ink spotting, lacking two leaves (pages 91-95) with tasteful facsimiles bound in, minor archival repairs to edges of four leaves, rear flyleaf extended; 19th-century owner's notes on flyleaves and occasionally in pencil in the text. Honolulu, 1849

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An important Hawaiian missionary and temperance journal, full of local detail. In the May issue, Damon states that "The publication of the Friend will be discontinued . . . until the editor returns from a voyage to the Western Coast of America." The last seven issues, resumed in September, include the first printing of Damon's serially published "A Trip from the Sandwich Islands to Lower Oregon, and Upper California," preceded by its own separate title page. This narrative was also issued as a separate volume, and is rarely seen in the context of the full year's issues. "The author's vivid descriptions cover Northwest United States from the Columbia River to San Francisco"--Graff 994. Cowan 1914 page 61; Forbes 1726; Hill 413; Howes D44 (all describing the book form).