Sentence:  Such was the impromptu that Voltaire gave to howls of laughter at Sans Souci and that was soon circulated in <WSD>manuscript</WSD> throughout the literary circles of Europe , to be printed sometime later , but with the name of Timon of Athens , the famous misanthrope , substituted for that of Rousseau . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  the form of a literary work submitted for publication