Friend, The--A Monthly Journal Devoted to Temperance, Seaman, Marine and General Intelligence November 1, 1854

Author: Damon, Samuel C.
Title: Friend, The--A Monthly Journal Devoted to Temperance, Seaman, Marine and General Intelligence November 1, 1854
Publication: 1854

Description: Friend, The--A Monthly Journal Devoted to Temperance, Seaman, Marine and General Intelligence November 1, 1854, Samuel C. Damon, Honolulu, Hawaii, 9 1/8 x 11 1/2 inches. 8pp.

Paper is toned at edges with three pinholes at spine. Paper is splitting at spine. Good Condition.

Single 8-page issue of The Friend, November 1, 1854. Paper includes a list of ships arriving and leaving Honolulu, (erroneously spelled "Hnolulu" on the banner), a Sabbath sermon, Sailing directions for the Harbor of Simoda, correspondence, ads, and even a spot of poetry. Also includes a list of Whalemen's Letters held at the Hawaiian Post Office as of October 10.

Page one also includes an interesting note of the completion of a panoramic lithograph of Honolulu by Mr. Emmert. "Only about twenty or thirty sets of the views remain unsold...." The entire panorama measures 12 feet by 2 feet. Oh, to find a stack of these in remainder today!

The Hawaiian Mission Houses website has a wonderful synopsis of The Friend. "Rev. Samuel Chenery Damon was sent by the American Seamen's Friend Society to be chaplain in Honolulu. The Damons sailed from New York March 10, 1842 aboard the Victoria, Captain Spring, and arrived in Honolulu October 19, 1842. He was the pastor of the Bethel Union Church, Seamen's Chapel for 42 years and was the publisher and editor of the periodical The Friend from 1843 - 1885, when he retired.

The first issue was published in Jan. 1843, originally under the name Temperance Advocate, then as Temperance Advocate and Seamen's Friend, with the Advocate and Friend being published as an extra, then as The Friend of Temperance and Seamen, with The Friend as an extra, and finally simply as The Friend, beginning January 1, 1845. The Friend began as a monthly newspaper for seamen, which included news from both American and English newspapers, and gradually expanded to adding announcements of upcoming events, reprints of sermons, poetry, local news, editorials, ship arrivals and departures and a listing of marriages and deaths. Rev. Damon published between a half million and a million copies of The Friend, most of which he personally distributed. Because of its longevity, The Friend is an excellent resource for scholars of nineteenth-century Hawaiian history."

Despite the quantity of papers originally published, they are somewhat scarce on the market today.

Seller ID: 999

Subject: 19th Century Pamphlets & Ephemera, Americana, Newspaper



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