Receipt for butter, bought for the Honourable Major O. Tilas, with the sellers marks affixed. 1 leaf. Linnaeus hand. No date.
Translation of the receipt: 'Bought for the honourable Major O. Tilas, 11 lb 7 of butter at 24 silver dalers per pound, which makes 272.12 öre, which the seller receipts with his name'
[marks affixed, no name]
Old wrapper indicates that it was 'Found in old thesis, put aside as not being within the [service?] of the Society's activities.'

Major Olof Tilas, knighted in 1719, was the father of Daniel and Olof Tilas. Daniel Tilas (1712-1772) was national herald and rejected Linnaeus's first design for his coat of arms, when the latter was ennobled in 1761. This could refer to Daniel's father or brother.