This ambitious volume assembled by David W. Forbes features a collection of ninety-two previously unpublished letters, as well as excerpts from two diaries, written between 1881 and 1885 by Hawaiian royal consort Queen Emma Kalanikaumaka'amano Kaleleon?lani Na'ea Rooke. It illuminates the last five years of the Queen's life and offers a record of royal social life and customs in nineteenth-century Hawai'i.