The commonplace book contains selections from several sources including: Voltaire, Maréchal, Beaumarchais, Boufflers, and Gentil-Bernard. The entries mostly concern women and wine, many giving the air to be used.
Autograph notes from an unidentified journal criticizing the poem of Pierre Le Moyne, 1602-1671, on Saint Louis with reference to Book XIII, and mentioning Voltaire.
Autograph letter signed from Jacques Montanier Delille to L’abbé Bertin, written from Planinville, undated. In the letter, Delille apologizes for not writing more frequently and discusses a letter Bertin wrote to Voltaire.
Autograph letter from Voltaire to Charles Augustin de Ferriol, comte d’Argental, dated 7 November 1759. In the letter, Voltaire complains that troubles encountered through recent acquisitions of property have delayed his work on ‘les chevaliers et les czars’.