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Notebooks containing copies of published poems, ballads, songs and prose works in English, French and Italian, translations from classical and continental authors, and original compositions, compiled mainly by Frances Morres Gore in her own hand, with some contributions by others and a small number of printed items, 1809-1832. The authors most commonly represented here are Lord Byron, Mme de Stael, Thomas ('Anacreon') Moore, Mary Robinson, Robert Southey and Edward Young. Others include Robert Burns, Thomas Campbell, William Cowper, Richard Cumberland, Thomas Dibdin, Mme de Genlis, Oliver Goldsmith, Reginald Heber, Horace, Leigh Hunt, John Langhorne, C[harles] L[loyd]?, John Milton, Mary Russell Mitford, James Montgomery, Cornelius Neale, Sydney Owenson, Petrarch, Alexander Pope, Charles Phillips, Sir Walter Scott, Percy Shelley, James Smith, Mary Tighe, Voltaire and Richard West, as well as Frances Morres Gore and her son William Gore. The content of the volumes is similar throughout, with the exception of the last. Many of the works relate to themes of romance, friendship, women, mortality, moralistic and philosophical platitudes, mythology, the natural world and the Irish landscape. Other compositions concern historical figures, the foibles of contemporary society, antipathy to the Georgian monarchy, Hanoverian government policies, and the Napoleonic Wars. Mrs Gore 's interest in the theatre is evidenced by a significant number of items referring to actors and playwrights, George Colman, William Conway, Robert Elliston, David Garrick, the Kemble family, Henrietta O'Neill, Alexander Fisher Palmer, Shakespeare, R.B. Sheridan and Sarah Siddons in performances at various English and Irish theatres between 1808 and 1824.

A manuscript copy, [1820s]-[1830s] (watermark 1814), of tours of North Wales undertaken in the Autumn of 1817 (pp. 1-30) and October 1819 (pp. 31-90) by Captain Henry Hanmer and his wife Sarah, including descriptions of visits to Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, the Ladies of Llangollen (pp. 10-11, 14-19, 45).
The itinerary includes Llangollen, Wrexham, Beddgelert, Caernarfon, Bangor, Llanberis, Holyhead, Conway and St Asaph, and includes descriptions of Dolbadarn Castle (pp. 55-58), the Penrhyn slate quarries (pp. 65-66) and Parys and Mona copper mines (pp. 69-73). A number of related poems and tales are interspersed throughout the text (pp. 4-101), including verses by Anne Grant (p. 19), Anna Seward (pp. 22-29), Sir Walter Scott (pp. 31-33), W. Sotheby (pp. 37-45), W. R. Spencer (pp. 48-53), Dr [William] Dodd (pp. 61-62), and Amelia Alderson Opie (pp. 88-89). They are followed by further transcripts in the same hand (pp. 107-120), including verses by Thomas Noel (pp. 112-118) and Sir Walter Scott (pp. 119-120), and, in a different hand (pp. 121-139), verses by Byron (pp. 121, 125), R. B. Sheridan (p. 121) and Robert Southey (p. 123). The volume contains numerous cuttings from engravings, either pasted or tipped in (pp. 1-103 passim); several of these are by Henry Gastineau and are taken from Wales Illustrated: In a Series of Views... (London, 1830), as is the printed description of Llangollen on pp. 101-102. Inserted at the end (pp. 187-198) is a pamphlet by S. G. Perceval, The Ladies of Llangollen: New and interesting facts ([?1909]), transcribing extracts from the present manuscript. A press cutting, [1829], concerning the Ladies of Llangollen is pasted inside the front cover. Pressed flowers are pasted in on pp. 57, 64-65, and the remains of a leaf has been placed in an archival envelope.