The letter seems to have been addressed to Voltaire’s printer in Geneva, Crammer. It mentions Joseph Marie Terray, finance minister under Louis XV, who had encouraged the censorship of some of Voltaire’s works. Also included is a pen and ink drawing of the church Voltaire erected in Ferney, beneath which is Voltaire’s dedicatory inscription ‘Deo erexit Voltaire 1761’. His name in this inscription has been written in large letters.

A letter from Joseph Marie Terray to Mr. Cochin, the intendandant des finances, written at Versailles on 10th May 1770. The letter is endorsed as ‘No. 2062.’ In the letter, Terray says that he is sending Mr. Cochin Article 4, Chapter 5 of the Book of the States of Bourgogne and Articles 3 and 5 of the Book of the Gex. He asks Mr. Cochin to look at the differences in the objects mentioned there.