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"A Party at the King's boathouse, Honolulu", p. 39
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"A Party at the King's boathouse, Honolulu", p. 39
"A Party at the King's boathouse, Honolulu", p. 39
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19359
Title
p. 39, A Party at the King's boathouse, Honolulu
Description
King Kalakaua sits in a grand upholstered chair talking to a group of men including Robert Louis Stevenson. Lloyd Osbourne can be seen seated at the far right and is beside three other western men, who all have moustaches and garlands round their necks. A group of Hawaiian men stand behind them who may be musicians as one is holding a ukulele. On the table in front of them is a large flagon, a decanter and glasses.
The image is from the photograph album entitled 'The Cruise of the Casco' of Robert Louis Stevenson's travels around Hawaii and French Polynesia in 1888.
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Unknown
Date
1889
Size
16.5 x 22.1 cm
Type
Photograph
Location
Writers' Museum
This is one of a number of photographs taken on 26th January 1889 at the King's Boat House where Stevenson and Lloyd were adorned with wreaths, drank champagne, played whist and had their photographs taken. Stevenson writes with astonishment at how much champagne Kalakaua could drink.
Lloyd Osbourne was Robert Louis Stevenson's step-son. David Kalakaua (1836-1891) was the last king of Hawaii from 1874-1891. He is sometimes referred to as The Merrie Monarch.
The Hawaiian Islands were known as the Sandwich Islands until the late 19th century. Hawaii is a state of the United States of America, located in the central Pacific Ocean. It became part of the Union in 1959, making it the 50th state. Its capital is Honolulu on the island of Oahu.
When Stevenson visited Hawaii it was an independent kingdom. The 1887 Constitution of the Kingdom of Hawaii however stripped the Hawaiian monarchy of much of its authority, disenfranchised most of the native population and transferred power to American, European and native Hawaiian elites. This was followed by the forced creation of the Republic of Hawaii in 1893, the abdication of Queen Liliuokalani and Hawaii's annexation by the United States of America in 1898.
Born in Edinburgh on 13th November 1850, Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, playwright and travel writer. Although he was plagued by ill health all his life, he was extraordinarily well-travelled, visiting Europe, America and the South Seas. He married American born Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne in 1880 and is best-known for works like Treasure Island (1883), Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (both 1886). From the late 1880s, Stevenson stayed in the South Pacific with his family on his own estate in Vailima in Samoa. He died here on the 3rd December 1894 of a brain haemorrhage at the age of 44, leaving what many consider his best work, Weir of Hermiston (1896) unfinished.
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