Bodleian Library, Oxford University

MS. Locke c. 32

A guardbook is which are mounted various poems.

50 leaves.

f. 8:

Letter to an unknown correspondent, [May 1652?]

Fair copy or draft of a letter in Latin related to the election of scholars to Christ Church, Oxford. In Latin; includes a Latin poem adapted from Persius, Satires i 122-123.

Endorsement: Electio

Printed: Corr., i. 5.

f. 9:

Letter to [Alexander Popham?], [May 1652?]

Fair copy or draft, with alterations, of a letter in Latin related to the election of scholars to Christ Church, Oxford.

At foot of page: Needham; perhaps Walter Needham, a fellow Westminster student.

Endorsements: Electio. Ep:; Ep. Elect.

Printed: Corr., i. 6.

f. 10:

“Now our Athenian olive spreads” [ca. 1651]

f. 13:

A Latin epigram beginning “Fama est ignaro quondam Iove munera multa,” endorsed by Locke “Verses 79”; enclosed in a letter from Henri Justel, [c. 28 June/8 July 1679]

f. 19:

Poem “On Damons Loveing of Chora,” by Damaris Cudworth, [January 1683?]; 1 sheet, 308 × 189 mm; copy on f. 20, followed by Locke’s reply on f. 21.

Printed: Corr., ii. 751; German translation: Meyer (ed.), Liebesbriefe an einer Philosophen, pages 97-99.

ff. 20-21:

Copy by Sylvester Brounower of the previous poem (f. 20), followed (f. 21) by a poem in reply in Locke’s hand, endorsed “Verses 82/3,” [January 1683?]; 1 folded sheet, 308 × 197 mm.

Printed: Corr., ii. 751, 752; German translation: Meyer (ed.), Liebesbriefe an einer Philosophen, pages 99-102.

ff. 24-25:

Two poems of unknown authorship, the second in Locke’s hand (f. 25^r), beg. “O Bright Diana spotless Faire” and “Man and wife are one”, 1689; endorsed “Verses 89”. The poem is generally ascribed to Fleetwood Sheppard, 1634-1698.

1 folded sheet, 168 × 110 mm.

ff. 31-33:

“The Clubb” (1694)