1 John O. Dominis and John M. Kapena were the governors of Oahu and Maui, respectively. Lieutenant George M. Totten, of the United States Navy, was one of several officers attending the king. At the Park Theatre, Kalakaua was greeted by the playing of “Hail to the Chief” and the Hawaiian national hymn. He watched the play appreciatively from a box decorated with Hawaiian and American flags. At the end of the third act, the royal party visited the green room, where champagne was served. When

Kalakaua was suffering from a severe cold, which he attributed to the “some-what inhospitable climate” (New York World: “Our Royal Guest,” 24 Dec 74, 1; New York Evening Post: “Arrival of King Kalakaua,” 24 Dec 74, 1; New York Times: “The King of the Sandwich Islands,” 30 Dec 74, 5; New York Tribune: “A Royal Guest,” 24 Dec 74, 1; “Recreations of the Hawaiian King,” 30 Dec 74, 5).

2 Paraphrases of this telegram also appeared in the New York World, the Times, and the Herald on 30 December. None of them suggested Clemens’s language as convincingly as the present Tribune version, but the first two preserved additional details of the telegram’s contents. The World reported that Clemens extended “a pressing invitation to stop over at Hartford and take lunch with him at his residence there” (“Royal Sight-Seeing,” 3). The Times noted that “he telegraphed that family matters would prevent his being present” at the Park Theatre (“The King of the Sandwich Islands,” 5). Kalakaua declined the invitation because he was committed to stopping in New Haven, Connecticut, and New Bedford, Massachusetts, on Thursday, 31 December, before reaching Boston the next day (“The City’s Guest,” New York World, 27 Dec 74, 1).