Hawaii. Department of Foreign Affairs

Hawaii's Department of Foreign Affairs was not a single person but a government department of the Hawaiian Kingdom, and later the Republic of Hawaii. It produced official publications on diplomacy, trade, immigration, and the islands' resources, often for readers outside Hawaii.

Library and catalog records connect the department with works such as The Hawaiian Islands: Their Resources, Agricultural, Commercial and Financial, The Hawaiian Islands: a Handbook of Information, and annual reports of the minister of foreign affairs. Some of these volumes were prepared with named contributors such as Daniel Logan or Alatau T. Atkinson, but the department itself is listed as the corporate author.

For modern readers, these books are valuable less as personal writing than as historical documents. They show how Hawaiian officials presented the islands to the wider world during a period of major political and economic change.