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Verses (30) in praise of 'Morganwg', beginning 'Mae Sir Forganwg landeg yn eitha'r Deau dir ...'.

Verses (6) headed '?Cyhydedd gyrch pedryfan 8 a 7', beginning 'Ti r unig ddoeth boed itti r clod ...' (crossed out), with come notes in pencil on the reverse side.

Verses entitled, 'Y ferch scer' [sic] beginning 'Mab wyf fi sym byw (?) bennyd ...'. (Not in the autograph of Iolo Morganwg).

Verses entitled, 'The Stonecut[t]er's Song' by E.W., beginning, 'A young stonecutter once did in Westminster dwell ...'. ('Tune A Cobler there was and he lived in his stall'). Indistinct. Ink faded.

Verses entitled, 'The Exploits of Tom Turdman. a new song', beginning, 'Old Women will often long stories repeat ...'. Part wanting.

Verses (5) entitled 'Can i'r scyfarnog', beginning 'Ti'r scyfarnog fywiog fach sy'n rhodio'n iach mewn rhedyn ...'. On the reverse side (crossed out) are the last two stanzas of a song attributed to Gronwy William, 1600. Top cut away.

Verses entitled 'Wyndham for ever. Tune Obstinate Daughter', beginning, 'Ye Sons of Glamorgan come forward with Spirit ...'. (cf. Iolo A. Wiliams MS 111/11 [NLW MS 21401E]). Printed.

Verses entitled 'The Wishing Cap', by E. Williams, ending with the epitaph on himself, 'He's gone, let no flatt'ries appear on his Tomb ...'. Draft.

Verses entitled 'The Welch Mountain-Boy', based on an extract from Warner's Walk through Wales (Bath, Hazard, Typ.).

Verses entitled 'The Tyther of Rats', beginning 'Of Ratmonger Williams I have a new song ...'. On the reverse side is a paragraph beginning 'Many plausible things have been written on the interesting subject of longevity ...'.

Verses entitled 'The Learned Hogs'. [The following Song was written by a Gentleman of Merthyr, in consequence of an illiberal and unprovoked disturbance made at the Theatre of that Place, on Friday, the 28th of May 1819, by several Travellers, who went there with the intention (as previously expressed by them) of annoying the audience with a Bugle, &c. & c. prepared for the purpose'].

Verses (crossed out) entitled, 'The Glamorganshire Farmer', beginning, 'A farmer I am in Glamorgan's green vale ...'. On the reverse side are some verses by Ith. Gm. Beginning, 'The branching wild apple trees covered with bloom ...'. Part wanting.

Verses entitled, 'The decline of Wit'. Endorsed by Iolo Morganwg: 'On Wit handwriting of Miss Bruce'. Fragile.

Verses (3) entitled 'Pastoral' beginning 'Now the Blackbirds early strain.' On the reverse side (crossed out) are verses similar to 'englynion' beginning, 'Planwyd gosodwyd is adail Castell ...'. Incomplete.

Verses entitled 'Omnipresence', dated Neath, June 9 1817, and beginning, 'Where dwells the Deity! shall mortal man ...'. Endorsed: 'Phipsons verses from Lucan - on Deity'.

Verses entitled 'John Bull's Litany, to be said or sung by all true Christians'. On the same sheet are (?) lines from Soame Jenyns's epitaph on Dr Johnson and a draft of a dedication by E. W. (Ith. Gm.) to [?The Prince of Wales], etc.

Verses entitled 'Hanes y wrach drystan, ar y don a elwir mentra gwenn', beginning 'Gwrandewch ar hynod hanes, Clywch i gyd &c'. On the other side are some Welsh words with their meanings.