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Miscellaneous Locke letters
The present location of the following letters is unknown. Knowledge of the letters is typically based on a listing in an auction catalogue, which is cited. The letters are given below in chronological order.
Letter to Sir John Banks, 18/28 August 1677.
Printed: De Beer, i. 352, based on extracts in Puttick and Simpson, sale-catalogue, 20-30 April 1859, no. 332; extracts also printed in Bourne, The life of John Locke (1876), 1:378]
Letter to William Charleton, 31 August/10 September 1677.
Superscription: Paris 10 Sept. 77
Salutation: Sir
Signature: Your most humble and obedient servant | J Locke
Printed: De Beer, i. 353, based on facsimile of first page in J. A. Stargardt (Marburg), sale-catalogue no. 55, 16 November 1961, item no. 419; on Maggs Brothers, Catalogue no. 616 (1935), item no. 982; and on fragments in Mr. Paul C. Richards (Brookline, MA), Catalogue no. 5 ( 1962), item no. 127.
Letter to William Charleton, 26 October/5 November 1678.
Answers a letter from Charleton dated 1 November (no longer survives)
Printed: De Beer, i. 415, based on Maggs Brothers, Catalogue no. 616 (1935), item no. 982; and on fragments Messrs. Sotheby and Co., sale catalogue, 18 November 1974), lot no. 391.
Letter to Philippus van Limborch, 10/20 September 1687.
[Martin Nijhoff, Catalogue d’une collection remarquable …, 1-3 December 1862, item no. 1391;
De Beer, iii. 962]
Fragment of a letter from Locke to William Charleton, [1/11 November 1687?].
[Maggs Brothers, Catalogue no. 616 (1935), item no. 982; De Beer, iii. 972]
Fragment of a letter from Locke to William Charleton, [16/26 January 1688?].
[Maggs Brothers, Catalogue no. 616 (1935), item no. 982; De Beer, iii. 996]
Letter from Locke to Nicolas Toinard, 1 November 1698.
[Robert Schuman collection, sale catalogue, pt. i, Charavay, 4 and 5 March 1965, no. 177;
Bulletin Pierre Berès, nos. 95-96, June-July 1966; De Beer, vi. 2504]
Letter from Locke to Cornelius Lyde, 16 February 1699.
[Sold by Thoemmes Antiquarian Books, 1993; present location unknown; De Beer, ix. 2458A]
Letter from Locke to Thomas Burnett, of Kemney, 2 May 1700.
[Kenneth W. Rendell, inc., Newton, Mass., catalogue no. 108 (1975), item no. 19; De Beer, vii. 2724A (printed vii, p. 794)]
Letter from Locke to Nicolas Toinard, [2 July 1700?].
[Robert Schuman collection, sale catalogue, pt. i, Charavay, 4 and 5 March 1965, no. 178
(also in pt. iii, 2 and 3 December 1965, no. 264); earlier in J. C. Brunet collection, sale catalogue (1868), no. 65, item 56
(dated 2 July 1699); De Beer, vii. 2739]
Letter from Locke to William Popple, 10 February 1702.
[Sotheby’s sale catalogue, 22 June 1970, no. 296; De Beer, vii. 3088A]
