The manuscript is a draft of a lettre en vers mainly in Voltaire’s hand. The letter starts with an author’s poem comprised of 18 lines, ends with two lines from Epîtres by Boileau (i.83–84), and features ‘Congé’ by Frederick II, Gargantua by Rabelais, Matthew and Epîtres by Boileau. Furthermore, as per T. D. N. Besterman, Caussy asserts that the same volume, f.26, houses another holograph draft of this letter; however, this assertion is unfounded.