July 18, 1917
Mr John Thomson
Owen Sound
Dear Sir:
We found your son floating in Canoe Lake on Monday moring about nine o clock in a most dreadful condition the flesh was coming of his hands. I sent for the undertaker and they found him in such a condition [illegible] he had to be buried at once he is buried in a little grave yard over looking Canoe Lake a beautiful spot. The Dr found a bruse over his eye and thinks he fell and and was hurt and this is how the accident happend.
Yours Truly
J. S. Fraser
Tom Thomson's Last Spring 