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Table of Contents for Canvas Journal 4

World War II Journal – Journal 3 – beginning  December 1941

This is the table of contents of a journal kept by Chaplain Earl Ray Brewster during WWII. Some of the entries were entered while Brewster was a POW by the Japanese in the Philippines. The first entry is December 15, 1941. While a vast majority of entries are listed here, it is not complete.

  1. December 15, 1941 (possibly aboard the U.S.S. Holland)
  2. Cabanatuan Prison Camp – (Tying up Loose Ends for Rosie)
  3. Personal Effects Aboard The [U.S.S.] Holland
  4. Table of Contents for Canvas Journal 3
  5. Highlights from Dec 2, 1941 (to Rosella Brewster)
  6. Spanish Notes
  7. My Will
  8. To Leonard on his 6th Birthday
  9. To Leland – Just on General Principles – October 12, 1942
  10. A General Prayer – April 19, 1942
  11. A Pacific Prayer (Feb. 1942)
  12. To Rosie – On the Eve of our Departure from Cabantuan __to? (Oct 10, 1942)
  13. Rosie’s 39th Birthday (March 22, 1944)
  14. Glossary of Naval Terms – by R.E.B. (presumably Earl Ray Brewster)
  15. Thanksgiving, 1943 Poem – Earl Ray Brewster
  16. Standing in Line – Earl Ray Brewster
  17. Poem Adapted from The 23rd Psalm – Earl Ray Brewster
  18. Poem Adapted From the 13th of 1st Corinthians
  19. Poem Adapted from Galatians 6: 1-10 Earl Ray Brewster 10/20/42
  20. Principles of Jesus
  21. To My Wife (Rosella Mae Brewster) – Mar 1942
  22. To Leland & Leonard – As They Start the New School Year – Sept 15, 1942
  23. “Debtors” – by Chaplain Earl Ray Brewster
  24. To Leland (my [?] yr. old son) March 10, 1942
  25. Leonard’s 7th Birthday – Oct 30
  26. To Leonard (my 5 yr. old son) Mar. 21, 1942
  27. Thanksgiving 1943 – to Rosie
  28. Christmas, 1943
  29. To My Mother – March 28, 1942
  30. Easter 1942 – Journal Entry Earl Ray Brewster
  31. Blackouts – Poem WWII Journal Entry
  32. To My Twin Sister Pearl – on our 38th Birthday – May 10, 1942
  33. To Rosie – On Her Birthday 3/22/42
  34. Mother’s 75th Birthday – June 27 1942
  35. Mother’s Day – May 10 1943
  36. To Condon’s Birthday – May 14, 1942
  37. To “Rosie” (Rosella Brewster) – Mother’s Day, 1942
  38. Mud – Poem by Earl Ray Brewster (during WWII)
  39. To Rosie – 16th Wedding Anniversary August 22, 1942
  40. Christmas 1943