Contains Landor’s thoughts and opionions on various aspects of life and literature. There are comments on old age, on Napoleon, and on a host of writers and poets including Shakespeare, Milton, Tennyson, Pope, Byron, Wordsworth, Gibbon, Sterne, Coleridge, Otway, and Voltaire. There are also passages on Elizabethan poets, and on the progress of poetry in general, with a tribute to Sir Walter Scott.

The first dated 3 January 1814, describes a new acquaintance, Mrs Lewen, and discusses her reading matter. The second, dated 16 January 1813 or 1814, criticises Voltaire; praises Byron; and mentions her seven-year old son, Francis, having drawn a picture of Napoleon and of Portsdown Fair. The third letter is undated, but is a copy of part of 23M93/30/1/18 below. The fourth is a mere fragment, concerning the taking of spa waters, for health. The final one focuses on acquiring a wife and a profession. She recounts an unhappy tale of adultery, faked suicide and murder by a family whose girls were pupils of Mrs Wollstonecraft [Mary Wollstonecraft 1759-1797]. Then she rebukes him for writing a complaining letter to Lord Clancarty, claiming his father lost a peerage owing to a similar letter to Lord Buckingham. [Accompanied by a copy in the hand of Richard Chenevix Trench, of part of the final letter].

The quotations included in the commonplace book come from: William Shakespeare, Walter Scott, William Robert Spencer, Charles Sedley, Byron, John Abercrombie, Washington Irving, Voltaire, Thomas Campbell, Thomas Moore, Antoine-Vincent Arnault, Mrs. Cornwell Baron Wilson, and W.S. Walker. There are seven watercolors, an aquatint, and pencil drawings, some enclosed in gold frames made from embossed paper. Two of the watercolors, portraits of a girl and a boy, are signed R.H. Johnson and dated November 1822.