The receipt consists of six lines.

The receipt is for the sum of 450 livres. This money, the life annuity for the first six months for the Château de Ferney, was received from Henri Rieu.

The document, produced by Friedrich Melchior, Freiherr von Grimm on behalf of the Duke of Saxe Gotha, acknowledges the receipt of ninety-nine letters from the late Duchess of Saxe Gotha, found amongst the papers of Voltaire after his death, and returned to the Duke by Pankoucke.

The receipt states that père Bonaventure Moussinot has received from Voltaire (through Mr. Laleu), 234lt to be sent to a banker in Lyon named Mr. Tenesin. The receipt was made in Paris and is dated 10 July 1756.

Gabriel Grasset writes that he has received from Mr. Faure a manuscript copy of Histoire l’Etablissement du Christianisme by Mr. Mallé, secretary to Lord Bolingbroke. This work was pseudonymously written by Voltaire. Grasset says that he will print the text in octavo with wide margins and in fine type, and that he will provide two dozen well-bound copies to Mr. Faure in Geneva. The receipt is dated 1 June 1774.

In a postscript, Grasset promises not to sell any copies of the text in Geneva. Theodore Besterman notes that if the dates provided in this MS are correct, the composition of the work must be brought forward from 1777.

Gabriel-Henri Gaillard humbly thanks the recipient for the case of Mr. de Voltaire, adding that he has no doubt that they will not receive Voltaire’s thanks also because it seems to him that ‘what you have the kindness to answer me is precisely what he asks.’ Also included is a receipt for the deliveries of volumes 46 to 60 of the Encyclopedia dated 26 January 1797.