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.