Mary E. (Mary Evarts) Anderson

Mary E. Anderson, also published as Mary Evarts Anderson, was an American writer born in 1838 and died in 1905. The main work that can be clearly confirmed from available library and public-domain records is Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California (1865), a travel narrative based on a journey through Hawaii and California.

Her writing is valued today for the way it captures places in motion: sea travel, island scenery, settlements, and everyday encounters. The book has remained accessible through major public-domain archives, which suggests a steady historical interest in her firsthand account of the mid-19th-century Pacific world.

Reliable biographical details beyond those basics are limited in the sources I could confirm, so it is safest to remember her as a travel author whose surviving reputation rests chiefly on this vivid and historically interesting book.