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Encloses notes, "the results of my Etymological Speculations".

Hawarden - thanks for letter, Greek pun "incomparable", High Stewardship, intends to get the support of [William] Whewell, churchmen cannot be too learned, John Wordsworth ill.

MS note on inside front cover, 'J. Wordsworth Trin. Coll Camb'; similar note inside back cover. List of contents on verso of front free endpaper, along with a note on how to refer to this volume. Notes to self on facing page on how to keep the book, on the separation of English and foreign authors in commonplace books etc.

The contents list names the following writers or sections, with page numbers: 'La Henriade' [Voltaire]; 'List of the most eminent French poets'; 'Miscellaneous Verse'; 'Miscellaneous Prose'; 'Memoires de Sully'; 'Cardinal de Retz's Memoirs'; 'Caractères de la Bruyere'; 'Eloge de Massillon'; 'List of French preacher and divines'; 'Corinne' [de Staël]; 'Contes Moraux de Marmontel'; 'Memoires sur Josephine'; 'Schlegel sur la langue et la literature Provencale'; 'Voltaire. Catalogue des Ecrivains'; 'Montesquieu's letters and discourse'; 'Rousseau'; 'Memorandua of tours upon the continent - French and Italian phrases - Rules for learning foreign languages - Expenses of journeys, times and distances &c &C. Observations on the rules of French and Italian grammar'; List of the most eminent Italian prose writers and poets'; 'List of the most authentic French works relating to the times of Henri IV'

'Index to memoranda of tours on the Continent from July 2nd 1833 to November 19th 1834 and in other years [including visits to Belgium and Germany in 1837]' written on out on p. 242

Margin drawn on left hand side of each page, with annotations frequently added here.

MS note on inside front cover, 'J. Wordsworth Trin. Coll Camb. 1833'; similar note inside back cover. List of contents on verso of front free endpaper, along with a long note on how to refer to this volume. Margin drawn on left hand side of each page, with annotations occasionally added here.

The contents list names the following writers or sections: Milton; Shakespeare; Collins; 'Moore's Lallah Rookh'; Cowley; Beaumont & Fletcher; 'Miscellanea'; 'Hazlitt's British Poets - Spenser'; Drayton; Daniel; Suckling; Wither; Marvell; 'Epigrams'; 'Wordsworth's Sonnets'; Philip van Artevelde; Talfour; 'Rev'd Wm Grave'; Philips; Campbell; Basil Montagu; 'Davis's Travels'; 'Guide to domestic happiness'; 'Moore's Life of Sheridan'; Burns; 'Mansel's Epigrams'; 'Pope's Epigrams'; 'Sir Ed. Coke's and Sir Wm Jones' rules for distribution of time'.

Five sheets, seemingly removed from a similar volume, loose inside, the first sheet headed 'Commonplace book for 1828. Extracts from Modern poets fugitive verses. Cowley's Essays. Byron Milton -'; there are also extracts from Shakespeare.

Title on cover in hand of [?] Wordsworth's son Christopher (1807-1855). Notes in pencil on inside front cover regarding the stages in a dinner at which various drinks should be handed round.

List headed 'Invitations to Dinner' by date; 'A' for accepted or 'Eng' for 'Engaged' usually recorded; sometimes numbers record a party accompanying an individual. Dinners between 1820-1841, the whole span of Wordworth's Mastership. A detailed account of table setting and drinks produced is given for a dinner of 13 Jul. 1835 at which Earl de la Warre and Lord Camden were present.

ff. 25-26 (folded sheet tipped into the volume): copy, in Wordsworth's hand, of 'Account of the culture of Sea Cale by H. B. Way Esq., Bridport', from the Transactions of the Society of Arts [Vol. 29 (1811), pp. 70-72].

ff. 27v: Notes [in the hand of Wordsworth's son Christopher (1807-1885)?] headed 'Allowance to Dr Wordsworth's Sons in 1823'. Some biographical notes on John, Charles and Christopher Wordsworth, including Charles and Christopher's appearance, for Harrow and Winchester respectively, at Lord's Cricket Ground on 27-28 Jul. 1825; H. E. Manning also appeared for Harrow and was caught by Christopher in his second innings. Pasted opposite (f. 28r) is a statement in the hand of Christopher Wordsworth the elder, dated 1 Jan. 1823 at Cambridge outlining an allowance for Charles for 'all his Tailors, Shoemakers and Hatter's Bills'; 'John' is added above Charles' name, probably at the same time as an annotation on 27 Aug. 1823, and a note about 'Chris's allowance'. Biographical notes on Charles in the hand of Christopher the younger, f. 28v. Sheet pasted in at f. 29r with draft [?] of statement about Charles' allowance on previous f.

f. 30 'Bill of Fare at Trinity Lodge above 1820-1830': sheet pasted in on opposite f. with this.

ff. 32-34: Copies, in hand of [?] Christopher Wordsworth the younger, 'Extracts from Dr Wordsworth's Pocket-Diary for 1821'. ff. 35-36: copies in the same hand, 'Memoranda at the end of the Pocket book for 1821'.

Pencil notes on inside back cover in Christopher Wordsworth the elder's hand, recording the dates of visits by his sister Dorothy and brother William. Printed label for Flight & Williams, stationers and paper hangers of Holborn, pasted to inside back cover.

Notes made by John Wordsworth in relation to A Handbook for travellers on the Continent : being a guide to Holland, Belgium, Prussia, Northern Germany, and the Rhine from Holland to Switzerland..., first edition published by John Murray & Son, London 1936, after a tour of Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany in Jul.-Sept. 1837.

Comments, with relevant page references, on inns and hotels, transport, places and sights of interest etc. Wordsworth complains (pp. 6-7) about being detained at Malmedy 'till our carriage and every article it contained had been most carefully searched by a rude barbarian who stormed and threatened us, for not declaring two or three trifling articles of Spa manufacture, which we did not know were subject to duty. This is the only time that I ever remember to have been rudely treated by any Prussian officer of Police or Customs'

Small amount of repetition of material from p 5 to p. 9 (notes on Thorwaldsen's statue of Gutemberg at Mainz, etc); portion on p. 9 crossed through.

Full title: A Table of the duties of customs on articles usually imported by passengers, with sundry miscellaneouse information for the use of persons arriving from the continent; with the prohibitions and restrictions on certain articles, and an abstract of revenue and other regulations in force appertaining thereto; together with the duties on similar articles imported into France and Belgium. By Robert Cox, Searcher, Landing and Coastwaiter, to his Majesty's Customs, and Principal Inspecting Officer of the Steam-Packet Baggage Department in London. Published by Charles Knight, 22 Ludgate Street, London.

'cir 1837' written at the bottom of the front cover in pencil. 'John Wordsworth, Trin. Coll. Camb.' in ink at top of front cover.