British Library

Add. MS. 28,836

Copies of letters from Locke to Nicolas Toinard, 1628-1706, and other miscellaneous papers. Collected by Jacques Charles Brunet. Acquired 1871.

Includes:

ff. 1-2:

Copy of letter from Locke to Toinard, 10/20 August 1678; present location of original unknown.

Superscription: Angers 20 août 78.

Salutation: Monsieur

Signature: Monsieur | Vostre très-humble et tres acquis serviteur | J Locke

Address: A Monsieur Monsieur Toynard a la teste moire dans la rüe Mazarine Fauxbourg St Germain a Paris.

In French; answered by Toinard on 17/27 August.

Printed: De Beer, i. 399; (from the original) Catalogue of the Alfred Morrison Collection, 3 (1888):182-183; (from the copy) Ollion (ed.), Notes sur la correspondance de John Locke (1908), pages 32-33; and Ollion (ed.), Lettres inédites de John Locke à ses amis …, pages 17-18.

f. 2^v:

Copy of letter from Locke to De Juigné-Losé, 12/22 August 1678; present location of original unknown.

Superscription: Angers, 22 aoust 1678.

Salutation: Monsieur

Signature: Monsieur, vostre tres humble et obeissant serviteur, | J Locke

In French.

Printed: De Beer, i. 400; Ollion, Notes, page 34; and Ollion, Lettres, page 19; excerpt translated in Bourne, Life, 1:400.

ff. 3-5:

Copy of letter from Locke to Toinard, 27 and 28 April/7 and 8 May 1679; present location of original unknown.

[printed (from the original) in Catalogue of the Alfred Morrison Collection, vol. 3 (1888):183-184; (from the copy) De Beer, ii. 467; Ollion, Notes, pp. 35-38; and Ollion, Lettres, pp. 19-23.]

ff. 6-8:

Copy of letter from Locke to Toinard, 6 June 1679; original in Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin.

[printed from the original in Alfred Morrison, Catalogue, vol. 3 (1888):184-185; De Beer, ii. 475; from the copy in Ollion, Notes, p. 40-43; and Ollion, Lettres, pp. 23-27; a facsimile of part of the letter is included in Weil, “Aus einem Briefe John Lockes” (1925/26)]

ff. 9-11:

Copy of letter from Locke to Toinard, 29 October 1679; present location of original unknown.

[printed in Ollion, Notes, p. 60-66; and Ollion, Lettres, pp. 42-47; De Beer, ii. 510]

f. 12:

Copy of letter from Locke to Toinard, 26 July/5 August 1688; present location of original unknown.

[printed in Ollion, Lettres, pp. 120-121; De Beer, iii. 1071]

f. 13:

Copy of letter from Locke to Toinard, 14 July 1698; original in Pierpont Morgan Library, MS. MA 4500.

[printed in Ollion, Lettres, pp. 130-131; De Beer, vi. 2473]

f. 14:

Copy of letter from Locke to Toinard, 29 June/9 July [1678]; original in Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts.

[printed (from the original) De Beer, i. 388; printed (from the copy) in Ollion (ed.), Notes sur la correspondance de John Locke (1908), page 28; and Ollion (ed.), Lettres inédites de John Locke à ses amis …, page 14.]

ff. 15-17:

Copy of letter from Locke to Toinard, 30 September 1701; with an enclosure (Add. MS. 28,728, f. 11).

[printed in Ollion, Lettres, pp. 146-148; De Beer, vii. 3009]