Diary, 1870, with entries from March-October, describing his life as an itinerant farm labourer in Victoria, Australia, including work threshing corn with periods of unemployment, poetry and a copy of a letter, 8 September 1870, sent by Joseph Jenkins, 'Travelling Swagman', to a farmer W. Nash, seeking work. The first section of the book contains poems written in Welsh, including 26 stanzas giving advice to his son Tom, a verse he composed after hearing about the death of his son Lewis, [1869], 'At fy merch Mary' and 'Pan yn rhodio ym mysg y llwyni ger llaw Castlemaine ...'.