A commonplace book of Evan Evans otherwise Evan ab Evans ('Ieuan Fardd' otherwise 'Ieuan Brydydd Hir', 1731-88), containing excerpts and extracts of prose and verse derived chiefly from English seventeenth and eighteenth century sources, e.g. Alexander Pope (translations of the 'Iliad' and the 'Odyssey'), Samuel Johnson (life of Richard Savage), John Dryden ('Preface to the Fables'), Abraham Cowley ('Miscellanies' and 'Davideis'), Sir John Suckling, William Warburton, William Wycherley, William Congreve, Joseph Addison, Samuel Butler ('Hudibras'), etc. The volume also contains 'englynion' and couplets by William Llyn, 'Theodore Alet', Sion Brwynog, Evan ab Jenkin Evan, D[afydd ap] G[wilym] Iolo Goch, Gwilim ab Ieuan hen, Dafydd ap Edmunt, Huw Cae Llwyd, Sion Tudur, and E. Evans, 'A Table of Summs in Attic Money with their proportion to english money', the first line of the Lord's Prayer in divers languages; etc.

The file contains poems on various subjects, including the restoration of Charles II [1660], scandalous behaviour of Mrs Price of Rhiwlas, [1779x1834], a translation of Robin Ddu's Prophesy, 1784, a copy of The Plough Boy by John O'Keefe, 1789, marriage of the Prince of Wales [1795], the French invasion, [1797], an Arthurian-style prophecy fortelling the rise of Welsh education and culture by Dr David Hughes of Ruthin school [c. 1797], copies of A Comparison by Francis Quarles and The Nosegay by William Cowper [c. 1807], lines on the tree under which William Penn made his treaty with the Indians by William Roscoe, 1813, death of Lieut. Thomas Griffith [1814], and Day by Beriah Botfield, 1821, an exercise book of John Griffith (3) of Garn containing a treatise on the lordships marcher, 1759, an exercise book containing a copy of an adventure story by Sir Bernard Burke, [1888x1919?], and a typescript composition by W.D.W. Griffith, dated 1925, about the encounter of his father, George, with Italian bandits in 1820.

Notes on seventeenth and eighteenth century English literature by J. H. Davies.