Scope and Contents Bound volume containing manuscript copies of 6 separate texts on contemporary paper, in late sixteenth-century Italian chancery script. Titles of copied texts include: Discorso del sig[no]r. Torquato Tasso intorno alla seditione nata nel Regno di Francia nella quale si parla delle cagioni onde hà havuto origine et del fine che è per havere ([55] pages); Discorso di Capitani, Governo di Armate et di Esserciti ([50 pages]; Modi di edificar Fortezze mandati a un Capitano ([19] pages);...

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Holograph diaries which give daily accounts of activities in Maui, including cabinet meetings, interactions with Claus Spreckels, the financial supporter of Gibson's government, association with King Kalakaua, visits to Mother Marianne of Molokai at the convent at Kakaako on Maui, the Hawaiian revolution of 1887 in which Gibson was ousted from office and exiled, and the breach of promise suit brought against Gibson by Flora St. Clair, whom he had allegedly promised to marry.