PHOENIX MEMORABILIA: My journals (ages 10-14)

     These are the journals I kept as we sailed around the world, 1954-1958. Mum later had them bound as sturdy ledgers. Over the next few days I'll show you peeks inside each of them. You'll see a change in hand-writing and hopefully a maturation in style and content. I start adding illustrations in the margins in volume 3 or so.
     You'll also see pages showing evidence of an extra large wave which came down the hatch or through a porthole and ink smudged or smeared by any one of our (mostly serial) cats.