Voltaire asks de Laleu to pay his account to the order of Messieurs Tronchin and Camp as soon as he can. The sum is fifty thousand lt, and Voltaire adds that he will be obliged to Laleu if he can do this for him. The letter has been written on the back of the document Voltaire received from Tronchin and Camp asking for payment. The document reads: ‘Nous vous prions Monsieur de payer La Somme de Cinquante Mille Livres mentionnée en L’autre part à L’ordre de messieurs Jean Cottin L’ainé & fils de Paris valeur en Compte avec Les dits sieurs. à Lyon le 9^e x^bre 1754. [signed:] J. R. Tronchin & Camp. Pour acquit Jean Cottin L’ainé’.’

Included in the collection, in Box 53 are two documents relating to Voltaire:

• Autograph copy of ‘Anecdotes sur l’arrivée du corps de Voltaire á Scelliers par Etienne Faireau’ c.1778. This manuscript was previously part of the library of John L. Gerig.
• Photostat of an autograph letter signed from Voltaire to M. Le President [Ami Camp] dated February 1762. The original copy of this letter is in New York Public Library. The photostat was gifted to Columbia University Libraries by H.M. Judson.