Enjoy "The Victorian Visitors" by Alfons L. Korns, who taught English at the University of Hawaii. This book, copyright 1958, is about Sophia Cracroft and her journal letters of a trip to the Sandwich Islands in 1861.

Her letters are published in full and for the first time in this book. Cracroft was a niece of the renowned Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin, and the lifelong companion of his remarkable wife, Lady Franklin. When her uncle sailed in 1845 in search of a Northwest Passage, Cracroft promised him that she would stay with Lady Franklin until he returned. During the next three years, when no word was received from the Expedition, and throughout the long years of the Franklin Search which followed, she kept her promise faithfully. When it was definitely learned in 1859 that Franklin and his men had perished in the Northern ice, the two women, freed of the heavy responsibilities they had shared, embarked on travels which brought them in 1861 to Hawaii.

Kona Historical Society's Jean Greenwell Library & Archive is a privately funded and operated research archive, consisting of collections of historical photographs, books, unpublished diaries, journals, letters, family records and memorabilia, land documents, and selected Kona newspapers and articles. Records of local coffee enterprises, ranches, community clubs, and ethnic organizations include correspondence, minutes of board and committee meetings, financial records, and publications.

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