Writes about his job in Canada: "I am hired here with a farmer and seldom move off the farm, unless on Sundays and on most of these days like the beasts we are glad to lie down and rest. There are four hundred acres of cleared land on this farm, three teams, and only his son and me to work it, so you may guess what a hired man has to do in Canada. We don't stop here at six o clock. It is from day light until dark". Thanks his brother for the money which he sent him and that he intends to join his daughter in Detroit, Michigan. He mentions that the winters in Canada are very hard: "The last two winters were the severest I ever felt. The winter before last both my feet with frost bitten. Last January I had one and was laid up most part of February. The nails are only now beginning to grow. I got a newspaper from Batlimore. I think it was from George Pierce. I hope he will escape the yellow fever. It is death to us northerners". Note on last page "Please forward to Anne - / Anne to forward / to Bess – / Bess to return to / J. Locke / Dublin / 13/5/56."