The manuscript is a draft of theatre-related documents sent by Lacombe, with the title ‘Paperasses de théâtre envoyées par Lacombe, 1775, à examiner’ written in Voltaire’s hand. This manuscript appears to consist only of a title page, which includes a title for a preceding collection of Voltaire’s plays: Samson, Eriphile, Les Frères ennemis, and Adélaïde du Guesclin. The manuscript is followed by what is presumably another title page with a title page, provided by Wagnière, which reads ‘Paperasses de théâtre envoyées par Lacombe, 1775, à examiner’. Additionally, Voltaire acknowledges a receipt of this manuscript from Lacombe on 29 May 1775 [D19494], stating that it seemed to him to have been ‘copié d’après un original qui était depuis près de quarante ans entre les mains de Mr de Pondevèlle’.