[1] The family moved again when Agnes was ten, this time to the nearby beach community of Venice, California, for her younger brother Al's health.

[5][6] Eight months after starting her journalism career, she was attacked by an assailant who was convinced that the newspaper was persecuting him by printing Krazy Kat cartoons.

Returning refreshed to the States, Agnes decided to become a writer, but soon afterwards lost her eyesight for two years as a delayed result of her injuries.

Their daughter Jean is mentioned, though not by name, in Keith's first book, Land Below the Wind, on page 174 of the first edition, dated 1939: "A picture stood on the table by us of our little girl at home in her party dress."

On page 171, while discussing the small local boy, Usit with Harry, she says, "I'm afraid I'm too lazy to take on the job of being a parent again."

[9] Agnes' husband Harry was Conservator of Forests and Director of Agriculture for the government of North Borneo under the Chartered Company, and was also Honorary Curator of the Sandakan (State) Museum.

[10] Agnes spent an idyllic five years at Sandakan, sometimes accompanying her husband on trips into the interior of the country.

The judges voted unanimously for her entry to win, and it was partly serialized in the magazine before being published in November of that year as Land Below the Wind.

It has abundant humour and a pervading charm ... An original and engaging description of a country and people of extraordinary interest.

[14] They were imprisoned in Batu Lintang camp near Kuching, unusual in that it accommodated both prisoners of war and civilian internees in between eight and ten separate compounds.

[15][18] One of Agnes' fellow female internees, Hilda E. Bates, described her in her diary entry dated September 21, 1944:Among my companions in camp are some outstanding personalities, and the following [is one] of these.

He evidently holds the opinion that a cup of [coffee] given in his office, and a packet of biscuits as a gift for her small son, will ensure him appearing as a hero in said book!Mrs A.K.

She dresses in a startling and very flamboyant fashion, in very bright colours, while her hair is worn in two plaits, one over each shoulder, thus adding to a slightly Indian aura!

[15]Mary Baldwin, a 70-year-old fellow-internee, did not get on well with Agnes, suspecting that she was "too ready to be polite and co-operative with the Japanese guards and their officers in return for favours – notably food and medicine for her infant son.

"[19] After their liberation and a short period on Labuan Island for rest and recuperation, the Keiths returned to Victoria, British Columbia, where Harry had had a small country house since his bachelor days.

On arriving in Sandakan in 1934, Agnes moved into Harry's bachelor bungalow, but the couple soon relocated to a government building on a hilltop, where they lived until internment in 1942.

[23] In 1953 Harry joined the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, and was posted to the Philippines, based in Manila.

[26] The auction press release commented: "Many of these items are not listed in any institutional holdings, including the British Library, and may well be the only surviving extant copies.

"[27] The title of Agnes's first book about the then North Borneo, Land Below the Wind, has become the unofficial motto of Sabah.