Description: Notes related to Locke’s translation of three of Nicole’s Essais de morale.; endorsed “Essay de Morale 77” and captioned “Essay observacon” and “Essay de Morale” in the lower left and right of the first page, respectively. The first page is mostly in shorthand.

The manuscript is made up of four sheets of paper each folded once to form a quire of 16 pages, 180 × 115 mm. The pages are numbered 1-5 (p. 3 repeated) by Locke; ff. 45-49 are blank.

Publications:

[the longhand notes]: The life of John Locke : with extracts from his correspondence, journals and common-place books / by Lord King. – London : H. Colburn, 1829. – p. 130-131 [1864 ed.]
[the shorthand note]: Essays on the law of nature / John Locke ; the Latin text with a translation, introduction and notes, together with transcripts of Locke’s shorthand in his journal for 1676, edited by W. von Leyden. – Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1954. – p. 252-254. [Locke #944] – Includes a photographic reproduction (opposite p. 254)

Discussions: Von Leyden, publication #1 above, p. 252-253.

Understanding (1677 February 8)

Location: Bodleian Library, MS. Locke f. 2, pp. 42-53.

Description: A journal entry dated 8 February 1677 [n.s.], with several marginal captions: “Understanding”, “Knowledg its extent & measure”, “End of knowledge”, and “Knowledg” [repeated on pages 48, 48, 50, 52]. Pages 48-49 are repeated; page 53 is Locke’s number, corrected to 55 by the Bodleian.

Publications:

The life of John Locke : with extracts from his correspondence, journals and common-place books / by Lord King. – London : H. Colburn, 1829. – pages 184-190; London : H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830. – vol. 1:161-171. – King gives it the title “Knowledge, its extent and measure.”
An early draft of Locke’s Essay : together with excerpts from his journals / edited by R.I. Aaron and Jocelyn Gibb. – Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1936. – pages 84-90. [Locke #932]
Political essays / Locke ; edited by Mark Goldie. – Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997. – pages 260-265. [Locke #867+]

Discussions: G. Bonno, Les relations intellectuelles de Locke avec la France (1955), p. 59-60.

Arguments positive and negative, Understanding (1677 February 12)

Location: Bodleian Library, MS. Locke f. 2, pp. 55-57.

Description: A journal entry dated 12 February 1677 [n.s.], with the marginal caption “Arguments positive & negative” at the beginning, and “Understanding” on page 56. The pagination above is incorrect; the pagination as corrected by the Bodleian is 57-59.

Publications:

The life of John Locke : with extracts from his correspondence, journals and common-place books / by Lord King. – London : H. Colburn, 1829. – pages 329-330 in the 1864 ed.
The life of John Locke / by H.R. Fox Bourne. – London : H.S. King ; New York : Harper, 1876. – vol. 1:358-359.
An early draft of Locke’s Essay : together with excerpts from his journals / edited by R.I. Aaron and Jocelyn Gibb. – Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1936. – pages 90-91. [Locke #932]

Recreation (1677 March)

Location: Bodleian Library, MS. Rawlinson D 849, ff. 146-147;
copy in Bodleian Library, MS. Locke f. 3, pp. 351-357.

Description: An essay written by Locke in response to Dr. Denis Grenville and sent by him in a letter which De Beer dates c. 9/19-11/21 March 1677, and preserved among Grenville’s papers. The paper begins “As for my Recreation thus I thinke.” On one sheet of paper, folded to form our pages, 186 × 127 mm.

Locke copied the paper into his Journal the following year, written between the entries dated 2 and 5 December 1678. The entry is headed “An essay concerning Recreation in answer to D G^s desire Mar 77”.

Publications:

[from the Journal:] The life of John Locke : with extracts from his correspondence, journals and common-place books / by Lord King. – London : H. Colburn, 1829. – pp. 323-325.
[from King:] The life of John Locke / by H.R. Fox Bourne. – London : H.S. King ; New York : Harper, 1876. – vol. 1:388-390.
[from the Grenville MS.:] The correspondence of John Locke / edited by E.S. de Beer. – Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1976-89. – vol. 1:472-475. [Locke #847, letter 328]
[from De Beer:] Selected correspondence / John Locke ; edited by Mark Goldie from the Clarendon edition by E.S. de Beer. – Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002. – pp. 59-61. [Locke #847+]

For an Italian translation, see entry Locke #862 in the John Locke Bibliography.

Discussions: Axtell, The educational writings of John Locke (1968), pp. 311 n. 3, 405-406; De Beer, publication #3 above, pp. 472-473.

Study (1677 March 26-early May)

Location: Bodleian Library, MS. Locke f. 2, pp. 85-89, 84-85, 87-88, 89-93, 106-114, 116-132.

Description: A journal entry with the caption “Study”, beginning “The end of study is knowledge” and ending “And so much concerning study. JL.” It begins under 16/26 Mar 1677 and was continued until sometime in April or May. There is a gap in the dated entries between April 5 and May 10 (page 133). The pagination above is based on Locke’s pagination and is complicated by the fact that Locke repeated pp. 84-89 (as well as earlier pages); the pagination as corrected by the Bodleian would be 87-93, 95-96, 97-101, 114-122, 124-140.

Publications:

The life of John Locke : with extracts from his correspondence, journals and common-place books / by Lord King. – London : H. Colburn, 1829. – p. 92-109; London : H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830. – vol. 1:171-203.
Some thoughts concerning education / by John Locke. And, A treatise of education / by John Milton ; with an appendix containing Locke’s memoranda on study. – Boston : Gray & Bowen, 1830. [Locke #550] – Reprinted from King.
[partially:] The life of John Locke / by H.R. Fox Bourne. – London : H.S. King ; New York : Harper, 1876. – vol. 1:162-164.
The educational writings of John Locke : a critical edition / with introduction and notes by James L. Axtell. – Cambridge : University Press, 1968. – p. 405-422. [Locke #562]
[extracts:] Political essays / Locke ; edited by Mark Goldie. – Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997. – pp. 365-372. [Locke #867+]

For translations into Italian, see the section on this work in the John Locke Bibliography.

Discussions: Axtell, publication #4 above, pp. 405-406; Goldie, publication #5 above, pp. 365-366.

Adversaria (1677 or 1678)

Location: Bodleian Library, MS. Locke f. 15, pp. 119-120.

Description: An outline of the branches of knowledge, with the caption “Adversaria”, in Locke’s pocket memorandum book for June 1677-June 1678. The entry has been crossed through with a vertical line, indicating that they had been copied elsewhere

“Theologia, ethics, and natural law in Locke’s classifications of knowledge and Adversaria” / Giuliana Di Biase. // IN: Locke studies. – 14 (2014):229. – Includes only page 119 of the manuscript; preserves Locke’s tabular arrangement.
“Physica in John Locke’s Adversaria and classifications of the branches of knowledge” / Giuliana Di Biase. // IN: Locke studies. – 16 (2016):157. – Includes page 120 of the manuscript, along with the first section on page 119; preserves Locke’s tabular arrangement.

Discussions: Di Biase, “The development of the concept of prudentia in Locke’s classification of knowledge” (2013), pages 96-101; Di Biase, publication #1, pages 196-197; Di Biase, publication #2, pages 111-121.

Cartesij opera (1677 August 8)

Location: Bodleian Library, MS. Locke f. 2, pp. 226-227.

Description: A list of works by Descartes in Locke’s journal dated 8 August 1677 [n.s.] and with the marginal caption “Cartesij opera”.

Publications:

An early draft of Locke’s Essay : together with excerpts from his journals / edited by R.I. Aaron and Jocelyn Gibb. – Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1936. – p. 91. [Locke #932]

Adversaria (1677 August 19)

Location: Bodleian Library, MS. Locke c. 28, f. 50.

Description: An outline of the branches of knowledge, headed “In Legendis Authoris hæc mihi præcipue observanda videtur” and captioned “Adversaria 19 Aug 77”.

Publications: None.

Adversaria (1677 September 4)

Location: Bodleian Library, MS. Locke f. 2, pages 247-252.

Description: A journal entry on the method of commonplacing, dated 4 September 1677 [n.s.], with the marginal caption “Adversaria”. Goldie calls it “Adversaria B” to distinguish it from other notes with the same caption.

Publications:

The life of John Locke : with extracts from his correspondence, journals and common-place books / by Lord King. – London : H. Colburn, 1829. – pp. 116-118; London : H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830. – vol. 1:218-222 [misdated].
An early draft of Locke’s Essay : together with excerpts from his journals / edited by R.I. Aaron and Jocelyn Gibb. – Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1936. – pp. 92-94. [Locke #932]
Political essays / Locke ; edited by Mark Goldie. – Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997. – pp. 265-267. [Locke #867+]

Discussions: Goldie, publication #3 above, p. 265.

Space, Distance (1677 September 16)

Location: Bodleian Library, MS. Locke f. 2, pp. 265-269.

Description: A journal entry occcurring between the dates 16 September 1677 and 19 September 1677 [n.s.], with the marginal captions “Space” (at the beginning), “Distance”, and (again) “Space”.

Publications:

The life of John Locke : with extracts from his correspondence, journals and common-place books / by Lord King. – London : H. Colburn, 1829. – p. 336-338 in the 1864 ed.
[part only:] The life of John Locke / by H.R. Fox Bourne. – London : H.S. King ; New York : Harper, 1876. – vol. 1:357-358.
An early draft of Locke’s Essay : together with excerpts from his journals / edited by R.I. Aaron and Jocelyn Gibb. – Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1936. – pp. 94-96. [Locke #932]

Turks (1677 September 19)

Location: Bodleian Library, MS. Locke f. 2, pages 270-271.

Description: An entry in Locke’s journal dated 19 September 1677 [n.s.], with the marginal caption “Turks” and the initials “JL” at the end.

Publications: None

Sensation, Delight, Senses (1677 October 1)

Location: Bodleian Library, MS. Locke f. 2, pages 280-286.

Description: A journal entry dated 1 October 1677 [n.s.], with the marginal captions “Sensation” (at the beginning), “Delight”, and “Senses”. The latter part (pages 282-286) is in shorthand.

Publications:

An early draft of Locke’s Essay : together with excerpts from his journals / edited by R.I. Aaron and Jocelyn Gibb. – Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1936. – pages 96-97. [Locke #932] – Does not include the shorthand passages.

Atlantis (1677 October 4 and 14)

See description under 1676

Three draft letters from the first Earl of Shaftesbury [1677 November?]

Location: The National Archives, PRO 30/24/42/62, f. 8.

Description: Among the Shaftesbury papers in the National Archives are drafts of letters from the first Earl of Shaftesbury to Charles II, the Duke of York and an unidentified peer, written during his imprisonment in the Tower, probably in November 1677. The letters were published as part of Locke’s Memoirs relating to the life of Anthony first Earl of Shaftesbury.

The manuscript is a single half-sheet measuring 306 × 197 mm. The letter to Charles II is on the recto; the first paragraph and part of the second is in Shaftesbury’s hand; the remainder is in the hands of two distinct writers. The letters to the Duke of York and the unidentified peer are on the verso, in Shaftesbury’s hand.

Publications:

[Letter to Charles II] Bibliothèque choisie, pour servir de suite à la Bibliothè universelle. Par Jean Le Clerc. Anné M D CC V [1705]. Tome VII. Pages 185-188. – Appended to the translation of Locke’s Memoirs of Shaftesbury.
“Memoirs relating to the life of Anthony first Earl of Shaftesbury. To which are added, three letters writ by the E. of Shaftesbury while prisoner in the Tower; one to King Charles II. another to the Duke of York and a third to a noble lord; found with Mr. Locke’s Memoires, &c.” // IN: Posthumous works of Mr. John Locke (1706) [Locke #724]. Pages 308-310.
[Letter to Charles II] Literary and historical writings / John Locke ; edited by J. R. Milton. – Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019. – (The Clarendon edition of the works of John Locke). – Pages 374-375.

Discussions: Milton, publication #3 above, pages 126, 179.

Madnesse (1677 November 5)

Location: Bodleian Library, MS. Locke f. 2, pages 317-318.

Description: A journal entry dated 5 November 1677 [n.s.], with the marginal caption “Madnesse”.

Publications:

The life of John Locke : with extracts from his correspondence, journals and common-place books / by Lord King. – London : H. Colburn, 1829. – p. 328.
John Locke (1632-1704), physician and philosopher : a medical biography : with an edition of the medical notes in his journals / by Kenneth Dewhurst. – London : Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1963. – p. 89.

Error (1677 November 11)

Location: Bodleian Library, MS. Locke f. 2, page 347.

Description: A journal entry dated 11 November 1677 [n.s.], with the marginal caption “Error”.

Publications:

The life of John Locke : with extracts from his correspondence, journals and common-place books / by Lord King. – London : H. Colburn, 1829. – p. 329.
An early draft of Locke’s Essay : together with excerpts from his journals / edited by R.I. Aaron and Jocelyn Gibb. – Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1936. – pp. 97-98. [Locke #932]

Madnesse, Folly (1677 November 11)

Location: Bodleian Library, MS. Locke f. 2, page 348.

Description: A journal entry dated 11 November 1677 [n.s.], with the marginal captions “Madnesse” and “Folly”.

Publications:

The life of John Locke : with extracts from his correspondence, journals and common-place books / by Lord King. – London : H. Colburn, 1829. – p. 329.
An early draft of Locke’s Essay : together with excerpts from his journals / edited by R.I. Aaron and Jocelyn Gibb. – Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1936. – p. 98. [Locke #932]
John Locke (1632-1704), physician and philosopher : a medical biography : with an edition of the medical notes in his journals / by Kenneth Dewhurst. – London : Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1963. – p. 90.

Adversaria (1677 November 12)

Location: Bodleian Library, MS. Locke c. 28, f. 51.

Description: An outline of the branches of knowledge, headed “In Legendis Authoris hæc mihi præcipue observanda videtur” and captioned “Adversaria 12 Nov 77”.

Publications: None.

Species (1677 November 19)

Location: Bodleian Library, MS. Locke f. 2, pages 356-358.

Description: A journal entry dated 19 November 1677 [n.s.], with the marginal caption “Species”.

Publications:

The life of John Locke : with extracts from his correspondence, journals and common-place books / by Lord King. – London : H. Colburn, 1829. – p. 321.
An early draft of Locke’s Essay : together with excerpts from his journals / edited by R.I. Aaron and Jocelyn Gibb. – Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1936. – pp. 98-99. [Locke #932]

Dr. Locke’s case of the tic doloureux in the Countess of Northumberland (1677 December)

Location: Royal College of Physicians, MS. 405.

Description: Locke’s notes on the case of the Countess of Northumberland, who suffered from a violent toothache, accompanied by a facial tic [“convulsio”], in December 1677. The countess, Elizabeth Wriothesley, was the widow of Joscelyn, 11th Earl of Northumberland, and the wife of Ralph Montague, then serving as English ambassador to France. Locke was in Paris at the time and was summoned to attend the countess. He communicated details of the case in letters to Dr. John Mapletoft who consulted his London colleagues. The case is described in Locke’s journal for 1677; the correspondence with Mapletoft (including the letters from the doctors he consulted) has been published.

The case notes consist of two quires: 8 pages in 8^o and 10 pages in 4^o. The notes were given to the Royal College of Physicians by Lord King.

Publications: None

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