King Kalakaua Document Signed

King of Hawaii (1836-1891) who was elected to the vacant throne in 1874 by a legislature that had been convened for the purpose. Kalakaua almost single-handedly restored many of the nearly extinct cultural traditions of the Hawaiian people. Uncommon partly-printed DS, signed “Kalakaua R,” one page, 8.5 x 14, June 5, 1879. King Kalakaua appoints E. P. Adams as "a Member of Our Privy Council of State." Signed at the conclusion by King Kalakaua and countersigned by Minister of the Interior Samuel Gardner Wilder. The reverse features printed text in the Hawaiian language. In fine condition. Adams was an English investor who, in 1880, founded the Kilauea Sugar Company along with Sanford P. Dole and two others. By this document, he was appointed to the Privy Council—known as the 'Wilder Cabinet' after its most influential member, Samuel G. Wilder—a group of economic and diplomatic advisors to the king.