Agnes Chalker visited her daughter, Hallijeanne, on the French island of Martinique in the Caribbean. This was Hallijeanne's first post in her career working for the Foreign Service. Agnes spent several weeks visiting her daughter on the island, and returned home via a cruise with Hallijeanne, stopping at several other islands in the Caribbean. This is a book she wrote about that adventure. A few rejection letters were found in her documents so there's evidence that she made an effort to publish the book. 

Note the spelling of "Carrousel" in her hand written title above?  This is the only case of her spelling it with two "r's" so you'll find it spelled "Carousel" throughout the book that she typed herself.

You can click on the icon at the top corner of the document to "pop" it out and  then you can download a full copy of the PDF if you choose.

Here's a picture of page one of the original document. The copy above was transcribed exactly from the original typewritten version of 28 chapters. Only typos and obvious spelling corrections were made. No "corrections" were made for grammar or punctuation. After all, she was an English and Latin teacher, so Google grammar "suggestions" were ignored.

This is the letter Hallijeanne sent home describing her very first Foreign Service post including her trip to the island and her first impressions of Martinique and the job. They seem to contrast greatly with the descriptions in "Caribbean Carousel". She describes Martinique as backward, poverty-stricken, and dirty. It was considered a hardship post and she requested a shortened stay there. She did come to enjoy it after her first year.