Everett Emerson's _Mark Twain, A Literary Life_ has a brief
discussion of the Hawaiian novel. Begun in January 1884,
it was a novel about Bill Ragsdale, a half-caste interpreter.
According to Emerson, very little survives of the manuscript --
only a few pages. Emerson also references an article by
Stephen Sumida titled "Reevaluating Mark Twain's Novel
of Hawaii," American Literature (Dec. 1989), pp. 586-609.
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