1893 PAPERS RELATED to the ANNEXATION of HAWAIIAN ISLANDS to the UNITED STATES

Description: PAPERS RELATED TO THE ANNEXATION OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS TO THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: Government Printing Office, 1893. First edition. Important Association Copy: Copy of HENRY N. CASTLE, with his SIGNATURE on the title-page. Henry N. Castle was an important figure in the overthrow of Queen Lilinokalani and the formation of the New Republic of Hawaii. He was owner of The Honolulu Advertiser, the oldest and most influential paper in Hawaii. HIS BROTHER WILLIAM R. CASTLE was a WRITER and SIGNER of the 1893 DRAFT ANNEXATION TREATY. He is referenced in a number of places in this book In 1895 while returning to Hawaii to support the Islands' revolutionaries he and his four year-old daughter were on the ship Elbe which crashed and sank. They both drowned. His wife and infant daughter, Elinor, were not on the ship. (Read more at the end of this listing.) Subsequent to the death of Henry N. Castle, his wife, MABEL WING CASTLE, SIGNED and INSCRIBED this book to his daughter, ELINOR CASTLE NEF. The book is inscribed on the front free-endpaper: "To Elinor Castle Nef / Henry Castle's daughter / M.W.C. [Mabel Wing Castle]". Subsequent to that the book was donated to the University of Chicago by Elinor Castle Nef and her husband John U. Nef. There is a University of Chicago bookplate on the front pastedown with the following printed information: "FROM the LIBRARY of / ELINOR CASTLE NEF / and / JOHN U. NEF". Also, on the verso of the title page, is the printed statement: "Gift of / John U. Nef". Hardcover book, leather spine and corners with marbled paper covered boards, 6x9 inches, 69 and 192 pages. There is a bookbinder's label at the bottom the front pastedown: " Haw'n Gazette Co. / Publishers, Printers and Binders / Honolulu, H.I." Contains two important Senate reports from the 52nd Congress, 2nd Session, relating to the Annexation of Hawaii. The first report is subtitled: "A treaty of annexation concluded on the 14th day of February 1893, between the United States and the Provisional Government of the Hawaiian Islands". Dated February 15, 1893. 69 pages. The report begins: "To the Senate / I transmit, herewith, with a view to its ratification, a treaty of annexation concluded on the 14th day of February, 1893, between Hon. John W. Foster, Secretary of State...and Lorrin A. Thurston, W. R. CASTLE, W. C. Wilder, C. L. Carter, and Joseph Marsden, the commissioners on part of the Provisional Government of the Hawaiian Islands." The introductory remarks are followed by the FULL DRAFT ANNEXATION TREATY. The second report is subtitled: "Correspondence respecting relations between the United States and the Hawaiian Islands from September, 1820 to January, 1893". Dated February 17, 1893. 192 pages. Condition: The covers are well-worn, the front and rear boards are disbound (i.e. laid on loosely), worn through at the corners and edges, scraped, and the leather is chipping and peeling at places; the spine covering is chipped at the ends, scraped, and has a horizontal split; nonetheless the covers and spine covering are present and bright, and certainly worthy of rebacking / repair. EX-LIBRARY, deaccessioned from the University of Chicago Library (which holds the archives of Henry N. Castle), with a library bookplate on the front pastedown (as noted above) and a library stamp on the verso of the title page, both over-stamped WITHDRAWN; the front free endpaper (with the presentation inscription from Mrs. Castle to Elinor Castle Nef) is split for 3 inches at its gutter edge and is very tender but holding; the second report has margin marks and a bit of underlining here and there throughout noting passages, perhaps made by Henry N. Castle; the pages are lightly age toned, there is some edge wear here and there, overall the inner pages remain bright, clean, clear and fully legible. A complete copy deserving of rebinding. The book "PAPERS RELATED to the ANNEXATION of the HAWAIIAN ISLANDS to the UNITED STATES" is almost impossible to find. With the ASSOCIATION to HENRY N. CASTLE and the CASTLE FAMILY, this item is a unique piece of Hawaiiana. About HENRY N. CASTLE (from his New York and Philadelphia Obituaries, and elsewhere on the Internet): ******Henry N. Castle, b.1862 d.1895, was one of the most prominent men in the affairs of the new Republic of Hawaii. Castle was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, the son of American missionary parents. He attended Oahu College, then in 1878 attended Oberlin College, where he met and began a lifelong friendship with George Herbert Mead [American Philosopher]. Castle then graduated with honors from Harvard in 1887. After Harvard, Castle returned to Hawaii where he became Editor and Proprietor of The Honolulu Advertiser, the oldest and most influential paper in Hawaii, and the Hawaiian Gazette. Castle became an avid advocate for the overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani and the establishment of a Hawaiian Republic. His papers actively supported the Islands' revolutionaries. In 1892 Castle married Mabel Wing. In 1893 Castle returned to the United States to attend the Hawaiian Commission in Washington, which was investigating American intervention in the Hawaiian revolution to overthrow Queen Lilinokalani, and to visit George and Helen Mead. (Mead had married Castle's sister, Helen, in 1891.) In 1894, Castle went to Germany with his young daughter Dorothy to continue his studies in Leipzig. When word reached him in December 1894 of a counter revolt by Hawaiian royalists, Castle and his daughter left immediately for the Hawaiian Islands on the steamship, Elbe, which collided with a small steamer on January 30, 1895 in the North Sea. Both Castle and his daughter drowned. He never was able to see his younger daughter, Elinor, who had been born a month before. Castle was eulogized as a martyr to the cause of democratic government for Hawaii and as a loyal supporter of the new Hawaiian Republic. Additionally, he had an important influence on the career of George Herbert Mead. Henry N. Castle was 33 years old when he died. The archives of Henry N. Castle are held at the University of Chicago.****** About WILLIAM RICHARDS CASTLE (from Wikipedia): ******William Richards Castle, b.1849 d.1935, was a lawyer and politician in the Kingdom of Hawaii and Republic of Hawaii. Son of Samuel Northrup Castle II and Mary Ann Castle, husband of Ida Beatrice Castle, brother of HENRY NORTHRUP CASTLE, Helen Kingsbury Castle Mead, George Parmele Castle and James Bicknell Castle. In 1875 he was appointed Attorney General for King David Kalakaua. In 1878 he was elected to the legislature of the Hawaiian Kingdom in the House of Representatives, where he served from 1878 to 1886, and then served in the House of Nobles from 1887 to 1888. After the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1893, he served as a Commissioner for the Provisional Government of Hawaii to lobby for the annexation of Hawaii by the United States, and as Commissioner of Public Lands. He bequeathed a book fund at Harvard College Library in his name, focusing specifically on South Seas literature. His Ex libris bookplate contains his personal coat of arms, arms of the Kingdom of Hawaii, and the Harvard College Shield. He died June 5, 1935 and is buried at the cemetery at Kawaiahaʻo Church.******

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