4 Yenangyaung, Burma, India

Nov 9, 1911
Yenangyaung, Burma, India

My dear Sister;
     I received your letter of October 7th this evening and am sorry to hear that you had been sick, but hope you are much better now. I cannot complain myself. I am felling very well. There is nothing to do here or no place to go to it is just work, eat and sleep all the time so if a fellow does nothing but that he cannot help but feel good.
     Alice wrote and told me Edna and Earl were up to see her. She also told me about Mrs. Daisy being dead. There seems to be quite a number of the old timers dropping off. I suppose I will not know the old town when I get back there, with all the paved streets, new buildings and new faces in place of the old ones I know. Really I sometimes think I never will see old L. again.
     There is one thing sure. I will never work at my business in the States again because the work is too hard for what money there is in it. I can do much better in foreign countries. As for farming, oh no, none for me! You know I could never hoe potatoes let alone run a farm but Alice is anxious to own a place in the country so if I keep my health and can earn the money she will have it. I am sending her $125.00 every month. And if I had not made a fool of myself and had stayed in Mexico, I could have been sending her more than that by this time.
      Well, about what we have to eat here -- everything comes in cans -- either from England or America. And a fellow gets pretty tired of canned good. We get very few vegetables, a little cabbage and corn in the spring is all. The potatoes are brought from Australia.
     Tell Helen I well send her some more cards as soon as I can get where I can get some. Well Sis, the bugs are about eating me up so I will have to close for this time. Hoping you will not be quite so long in answering.
     With regards to all, I remain respectfully your
      Bro. John