Lyons, Lorenzo

Autograph note, signed "L. Lyons." To [Charles Reed?] Bishop. N.p. [Waimea, Hawai'i], n.d. [c. 1860]



Top portion torn from a folio sheet (3 3/4 x 8 in.; 95 x 204 mm.); a few worm punctures. 4 lines written plus salutation and signature.

Lorenzo Lyons (1807-1886), a missionary on Waimea, asks Mr. Bishop to pay ten dollars to George Kalaua. Mr. Bishop could be the banker Charles Reed Bishop (1822-1915), who, starting as collector general of customs at Honolulu, formed the firm of Aldrich & Bishop in 1858, which later became the Bank of Bishop.