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Fastener Folder. Vol. I, II, & III. 4to, pp. [52]; Images throughout, mix of black/white and color images; mint green fastener folder with gray cloth binding; folder is yellowed on both sides with some smudges; scratched out "Western Michigan University" stamp on inside of front cover, fasteners are slightly rusted with some rust transferred to the cloth binding; pages are yellowed but readable, remnants of postage stamps on page 6; all else good and sound. Newsletters detailing the lives and events of Methodist Missionaries in Sumatra. Primarily the writings of Reverend Johan Carel Hamel. "Johan Carel Hamel, author of this book. He was born 9/16/1897 in Amsterdam, Holland, and immigrated to USA to study at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. He met and married a Dutch immigrant: my grandmother Guertje Ossentjuk, Dec. 26, 1918. J.C.Hamel was a Methodist Missionary on Sumatra from 1922 to 1933, and he became a minister in the Protestant Reformed Church of the Netherlands, and lived on Java and the Island of Ambon. March 11, 1942, J. C. Hamel reported to a prisoner of war camp for Dutch Soldiers. They were forced to travel the road to Burma, and eventually he worked on the bridge over the River Quai. He was shipped to Japan near the end of the war, where he was interned in a POW camp, and served heroically as camp chaplain caring for the sick and dying soldiers. He witnessed the cloud of one of the atomic bombs in the distance. He was released at the end of the war." (Julia Wood, Hamel's Granddaughter).