Volume of extracts of poetry and plays from writers like Michael Drayton (1563-1631), Voltaire, Antoinette Du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières (1638-1694), and John Dryden (1631-1700), copied by Thaddeus Mason Harris in 1792. There are also critical remarks taken from published works.

Writers featured in the volume include Erasmus and Voltaire.

One letter written from Rotterdam described Tudor’s difficult voyage at sea. Another, written from London, addresses John’s plans after college, in which William Tudor quotes Voltaire.