SANFORD B. DOLE - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 08/07/1911 - HFSID 265263

SANFORD DOLE. ALS: "Sanford", 4p, 5x7¼, front and verso. Dresden, 1911 August 7. Writes a travelogue of his trip through Europe to "Dear George". In full: "We are in a pension here, - the first time we have tried one, and we like the utter quiet of it and its inexpensiveness and the absence of the numerous waiters, call boys, etc. - hungry for tips. The rooms are comfortable, the halls spacious and the building is really more commodious than some of the hotels we have been in. The table is less pretentious than most hotel tables, but we like it better on that account we were tired of rich dishes elaborately cooked and are glad of more simple fare. As Emily acquaints you with our movements, I need not repeat. Our journey here from Paris was full of interest. Bruges is one of the most interesting places we have visited, the word quaint belongs to it. - its houses, its streets, its people. There the dogs make themselves useful and help to draw the hand carts and apparently do most of the pulling. One constantly meets in the streets beautiful, tall girls with wooden yokes on their shoulders carrying big pails of something - supposedly milk. The bells of Bruges often ring out joyous chimes. The picturesque canals with their bridges charmingly set off parts of the town. Brussels is fine like Paris. Its Palais de Justice (court house) is almost the first public building I have yet seen in Europe. I am greatly disappointed in the European palaces. While the churches are satisfying and beautiful and uplifting, the palaces are generally ugly outside, - great barracks containing immeasurable rooms, many of them splendid, some beautiful, but the general outside offers one of a gross display of power and wealth. How the sentiment which inspires architects shows in the construction. Cologne Cathedral was a delight. I think it leads all gothic ecclesiastic building. It was a religious experience to be in it. We steamed up the Rhine from to Cologne to Mayence stopping over night at Goblenz. The trip was full of interest. The picturesque country through which the river flows is much enhanced in interest by the many castles, - some of them in ruins and some still inhabited. These ruins, in places seem almost to be a part of the original rock formation, and rugged and massive are they. We spent a night at Mayence, or Mainz as the Germans make it, then on to Eisenach, a beautiful town hidden in trees placed in a little valley and its surrounding steep ridges. Here we spent two nights and then on to Dresden. The German hotels have reasonable prices and good fare and comfortable rooms. The same is true of those in Brussels. I have your letters of June 12 and July 21 to acknowledge. Sorry you didn't meet Sean Gonde. We gave up the coronation because we found that we would have to get to seats on the street stands early in the morning and would not be able to leave them until late in the afternoon, and thought it would be too hard on Anna to have to go through it all. Henry Baldwin's death is a great loss to the Islands and to his friends. He was a rare man indeed. I was disqualified to try the Mahuka condemnation suit as Anna has shares in E.O. Hall & Son. They have extended my leave of absence two months. So I do not have to reach Honolulu before the last of November. I received the quarterly account. Aloha". Handwritten postscript at left margin of first page: "Anna and I go into a sanitarium near here tomorrow so stay for a week or two. Sightseeing and travelling (sic) this hot weather have pulled me down some." The coronation that Dole mentions was that of Britain's King George V, who ascended to the throne on June 22, 1911. HENRY PERRINE BALDWIN (1842-1911) was known as the "Father of Maui", and thousands of people from the Hawaiian Islands came to pay their respects at his funeral. Baldwin had been responsible for the development of the Hamakua Ditch system that brought water from Maui's eastern rainforest to its sugar cane fields in the central part of the island. He and a group of businessmen also formed the Haleakala Ranch. After serving in the Hawaiian legislature (1884-1887) and as Associate Justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court (1887-1893), SANFORD DOLE (1844-1926) was the head of the revolutionary provisional government after Queen Liliuokalani was deposed in 1893. Dole was the only President of the Republic of Hawaii (1894-1900) and the first Governor of the U.S. Territory of Hawaii (1900-1903). From 1904-1915, he served as Judge of the U.S. District Court for Hawaii. Lightly creased with folds. Several pinhead-size holes and ¼-inch paper loss on second page touch some words. Heavily penned, ink shows through (all legible). Ink blot at 1 word. Overall, fine and interesting.