Notes re visit to New York, meetings with individuals there, addresses; entries relating to religious services, sermons, appears to be describing a tour of churches/chapels in America; mentions being with his nephew Sam [Samuel Holmes]; newspaper clippings relating to locomotive history, mine explosions; extracts from Zerah Colburn's history, Nicholas Wood's treatise 1825,The History of the First Locomotives in America by William H. Brown, New Jersey; several draft letters written whilst in New York; general notes, some sketches.