The account sets out various payments concerning woodworking jobs between Pinier and Decroze. Pinier then asks Voltaire to observe that Decroze rented him an apartement for £100, from which he only takes £36.

Voltaire says that he has received from the Marquis of St. Tropez, through Mr. Audibert, £481 12 cents for a year of his annuity which came to term on 1st May 1775.