Comprises: Approx. 125 Autograph Letters Signed from and to various Dole family members, including 5 from Sanford B. Dole. All loose in sleeves in two binders. c.1846-1898. * Folder containing genealogical material relating to the Dole family, including family trees, typescripts, letters from distant relatives, handwritten lists of ancestors, etc. * Two large folders containing typed (carbon & ribbon) transcripts of diaries of Charlott Close Dole, 1850-1866; and George H. Dole (combined with wife Clara Maria Dole starting in 1866), with separate transcripts for each year from 1864 to 1884, plus one or two duplicates of each. * Scrap Book #2. Newspaper and magazine clippings relating mainly to Walter Dole's time at Cornell, beginning in 1888. *Scrap Book #3. Newspaper clippings covering his time at Cornell, 1890-1892, then Hawaii, 1893, with much on the Revolution and prospects for annexation. Includes much ephemera from Walter Dole’s college days. The material is pasted to leaves of a large ledger book from 1881, with ink entries. * Approx. 100 disbound leaves from a scrapbook (unused ledger), with newspaper clippings mostly relating to Hawaii and Sanford B. Dole, c.1890-1910. * Scrap Book #6. Newspaper clippings including much on Sanford B. Dole and his death in 1926, plus other material as late as 1941. * Scrap Book #7. Newspaper clippings from 1927 to 1943, many relating to Hawaii, plus engraved marriage invitations, etc., and 3-page typed transcript recording 1874 ascent of Wialeale, Kauai, by George H. Dole. * Scrap Book #8, Snap Shots. Photographs of Hawaii, Sausalito, Riverside, etc., most captioned. Includes shot of “Uncle Sanford Floating” on his back in the ocean, a number of Charles Dole in Hawaii, and more. * Scrap Book #11, Snap Shots. Photographs including Alfred R. Dole on Return from Manila 1902, in uniform; various Christmas cards illustrated with family photographs; family outings in the 1940’s; etc. * Scrap Book #12. Mostly photographs including three 8x10” albumen photographs of Hawaii; 7 snapshots of Dole outing to Massachusetts in 1911, with several of Sanford B. Dole; photographs of 1943 family reunion, with group and individual portraits, etc. * Several documents relating to wills and estate matters, including Statement to Creditors and Heirs of W.E. Rowell Estate, 1918, 10 leaves, including a listing of the property involved; letter from a lawyer to Norman Dorset Dole, 1927, regarding distribution of funds received from the sale of the property "Aqua Marine" owned by the late Sanford B. Dole, etc.

Significant archive relating to the influential Dole family of Hawaii, whose major figure was Sanford B. Dole (1844-1926), born to missionaries on Hawaii, who helped instigate the overthrow of the monarchy, and became President of Hawaii, and its first governor as a territory of the United States. The archive was compiled by Walter S. Dole, son of Sanford's brother George, and Walter's name is at the beginning of each scrapbook, with numbers sequencing their creation. The many family photographs are of historic value, and the gathering of newspaper and magazine clippings quite informative, but the most historically important part of the archive are the 125 or so letters between family members, most on Hawaii. The earliest is from Malvina J. Rowell, thought to be from 1846, to Sister C. There is a letter to Sanford Dole from May Green dated 1856, other letters from the 1860s and '70s, with most of the letters from the 1880's. Of the letters from Sanford Dole, three are to his brother George, and two are to his nephew Walter. The letters offer a rare glimpse of personal interactions within one of Hawaii's leading families, and while there are no lengthy descriptions of Hawaiian scenery and native customs (they were all lifelong residents, after all), there is a familiarity with Hawaii that comes through. On March 13, 1888, Walter writes from Ithaca, NY, to his uncle Sanford in Hawaii: "Your very welcome letter has been received and we were very glad to hear from you. What made those two judges of the Supreme Court flop over to the other side? What is going to be done about the veto question now? [Apparently this has to do with the 'Bayonet Constitution' of 1887]... Some of the ideas that people here have about the Islands are very funny. It was only yesterday that Prof. Williams, in one of his classes while speaking of the great improvement in civilization made by some savage races, said, 'it is within my memory and almost within yours when the Sandwich Islanders were a race of cannibals, but now they are entirely civilized, and we make treaty with them,' etc..." In January, 1886 Walter's mother writes to her 18-year-old son, ""We were glad to get your letter this week. Henry Wilcox concluded not to run for legislature because he just got a good position, and could not make up his mind to throw it up for that. Kaupena is the only one now to take his place. Papa went over to see them start the electric lights the other evening but they did not work well; he says the engine would run as swiftly or smoothly as possible without any electric current but as soon as that was added there seemed to be a powerful resistance, which the electrician said he could not understand... They are working day & night at Kealia now, and are making about 40 tons of sugar a day I believe. Mr. Bellow is very slow about finishing the Kapaea flume..."