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Three Came Home
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Agnes Newton Keith Papers
Includes drafts, diaries, correspondence, speech notes, research materials, and clippings, mostly related to Keith's literary work. Multiple complete drafts are present for Keith's books White Man Returns (1951), Bare Feet in the Palace (1955), Children of Allah (1966), Beloved Exiles (1972), and Before the Blossoms Fall (1975), as well as incomplete draft materials for Land Below the Wind (1939) and Three Came Home (1947). Drafts and published copies are also present for many of Keith's articles. The collection includes several diaries by Keith, most notably the secret records kept during her internment as a Japanese prisoner of war. Both her original notes, which she had kept hidden in her son's toys, and her subsequent typescript transcription are present, as well as the letters her husband smuggled to her from an adjacent camp. Correspondence is predominantly professional. A major correspondent is Edward A. Weeks, the editor of The Atlantic Monthly. The collection includes printed matter, government reports, and other research materials related to Keith's books, as well as clippings about Keith's life and work. Notes for speeches given by Keith are also present.
Three Came Home
When the Japanese take Borneo in 1942, Agnes Keith is captured and imprisoned with her two-year-old son. Fed on minimal rations, forced to work through recurrent bouts of malaria and fighting with rats for scraps of food, Agnes Keith's spirit never completely dies. Keeping notes on scraps of paper which she hides in her son's home-made toys or buries in tins, she records a mother's pain at watching her child go hungry and her poignant pride in his development within these strange confines. She also describes her captors in all their complexity. Colonel Suga, the camp commander, is an intelligent, highly educated man, at times her adversary, at others a strange ally in a distorted world.
White Man Returns
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Children of Allah
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Children of Allah
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Three Came Home
When the Japanese swept through Borneo in 1942, Agnes Keith was captured with her two-year-old son. Even though keeping notes was a capital offence, she wrote a diary on the backs of labels and in the margins of old newspapers, which she buried in tins or sewed inside her sons home-made toys. Unlike many other narrators of camp life, Agnes Keith gives an honest and rounded description of her Japanese captors. The camp commander, Colonel Suga, was responsible for a forced march which killed all but three out of 2,970 prisoners; yet he regularly took children for joy-rides in his car, stuffing them with sweets, and sent them back to camp with armfuls of flowers from his garden.
Kinabalu Guerrillas
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