KESSEL (Joseph). [Hawaiian Songs]. Unsigned autograph manuscript. 1918 ? 1930 ? 8 leaves in-8, 13.5 x 21 cm, handwritten on the front, a few lines or notes on some versos. First draft of the incipit to a story about doctor Pierre Varin's love affairs in Hawaii. Unfinished story; unpublished? Was Kessel inspired by his long circumnavigation of the globe from November 1918 to May 1919? Enlisted in the Siberian Allied Expeditionary Force, he travelled to New York, the islands of Hawaii and Honolulu, then Vladivostok, Shanghai.... With erasures and additions; the verso of leaves 2 and 7 contains brief notes of a plan; f. 8 contains only 5 lines. Stains.