The current location of this manuscript is unknown. It was first published by Gaston de Villeneuve-Guibert in Le Portefeuille de madame Dupin (Paris, 1884), p.309-314. Villeneuve-Guibert claimed that the text he published was based on an eight-page autograph manuscript that he had in his possession. The manuscript passed at auction in 1951 and has not re-emerged.

This copy differs significantly from the published version and could have been produced for a musician.

This is the first known draft of the majority of the first part of Doutes nouveaux. The present whereabouts of the MS is unknown, but Theodore Besterman owned a photocopy of it.

Points 5 and 6 of the argument are preserved, suggesting that there would have been at least two preceding pages. As the text does not finish at the end of the page, it appears that it represents a completed state.

This MS is possibly part of another draft of CMV33706 as it seems to bear some resemblance to this MS. Written at the top of the MS is ‘Collection of Theodore Besterman London’.