Bodleian Library, Oxford University
Locke Manuscripts from the Lovelace Collection

Listing by Categories

Journals

Locke kept a journal from 12 November 1675 until 24 October 1704.

MS. Locke f. 1 (1675-76) | MS. Locke f. 2 (1677) | MS. Locke f. 3 (1678)
Brit. Lib., Add. MS. 15,642 (1679) | MS. Locke f. 4 (1680) | MS. Locke f. 5 (1681)
MS. Locke f. 6 (1682) | MS. Locke f. 7 (1683) | MS. Locke f. 8 (1684-85)
MS. Locke f. 9 (1686-88) | MS. Locke f. 10 (1689-1704)

Pocket memorandum books

MS. Locke f. 11 (1649-66) | MS. Locke f. 27 (1664-66) | MS. Locke f. 12 (1664-72)
National Library of Israel, MS. Var. 294 (1667) | Brit. Lib., Add. MS. 46,470 (1669)
MS. Locke f. 48 (1672) | MS. Locke f. 13 (1674) | MS. Locke f. 15 (1677)
MS. Locke f. 28 (1678-79) | MS. Locke f. 29 (1683-1702) | Morgan Library, W 22 C (1684)

Notebooks/Commonplace Books

Locke kept a series of notebooks in which he entered notes on his reading. He generally kept separate notebooks for medical and non-medical notes. The notebooks are organized in various ways; beginning in the late 1650s, he began to employ his New Method for organizing and indexing.

MS. Locke e. 4 (early 1650s, medical) | MS. Locke e. 6 (early 1650s, non-medical)
MS. Locke f. 20 (late 1650s, medical) | MS. Locke f. 18 (late 1650s, medical)
MS Locke f. 14 (late 1650s, non-medical) | Brit. Lib., Add. MS. 32,554 [Adversaria 2] (early 1660s, medical)
MS. Locke f. 19 [Adversaria 3] (early 1660s, medical)
MS. Locke d. 9 [Adversaria Physica] (mid-1660s, medical) |

Correspondence

The letters received by Locke are mounted in 21 guardbooks (MS. Locke c. 3-23), arranged in alphabetical order by the names of the writers. A collection of drafts or unsent letters written by Locke is mounted in another guardbook (MS. Locke c. 24); an additional guardbook (MS. Locke b. 6) contains letters written by Locke to his cousin Peter King.

MS. Locke c. 3 (Aglionby-Berkeley) | MS. Locke c. 4 (Bernard-Bury)
MS. Locke c. 5 (Calverley-A. Churchill) | MS. Locke c. 6 (J. Churchill-Colleton)
MS. Locke c. 7 (Collins-Du Bos) | MS. Locke c. 8 (Duke-Fuller)
MS. Locke c. 9 (Furly-Geekie) | MS. Locke c. 10 (Gendron-Guenellon)
MS. Locke c. 11 (Guenellon-Hutton) | MS. Locke c. 12 (Ivie-P. King)
MS. Locke c. 13 (R. King-F. van Limborch) | MS. Locke c. 14 (P. van Limborch-Locke)
MS. Locke c. 15 (Lockhart-Marx) | MS. Locke c. 16 (Masham-Pawling)
MS. Locke c. 17 (Pawling-Popple) | MS. Locke c. 18 (Pound-P. Stratton)
MS. Locke c. 19 (W. Stratton-Tenison) | MS. Locke c. 20 (Thomas-Tindal)
MS. Locke c. 21 (Toinard) | MS. Locke c. 22 (Towerson-Uvedale)
MS. Locke c. 23 (Veen-Yonge) | MS. Locke c. 24 (Letters from Locke)
MS. Locke b. 6 (Letters to P. King) | MS. Locke b. 8 (Letters to Clarke)
MS. Locke c. 40 (Letters to P. King) | MS. Locke c. 45 (Letter to Toinard)

Accounts and Personal Papers

MS. Locke b. 1 | MS. Locke b. 5 | MS. Locke c. 1 | MS. Locke c. 2 | MS. Locke c. 35 | MS. Locke f. 34

Philosophy and Theology

MS. Locke c. 27 | MS. Locke c. 28 | MS. Locke c. 34 | MS. Locke c. 43 | MS. Locke d. 3 | MS. Locke d. 4 | MS. Locke d. 10 | MS. Locke e. 1 | MS. Locke e. 2 | MS. Locke e. 6 | MS. Locke e. 7 | MS. Locke e. 10 | MS. Locke e. 11 | MS. Locke f. 26 | MS. Locke f. 30 | MS. Locke f. 31 | MS. Locke f. 32

Politics

MS. Locke e. 18

Political Economy

MS. Locke b. 3 | MS. Locke d. 2 | MS. Locke e. 8

Trade and Colonization

MS. Locke c. 30 | MS. Locke c. 36 | MS. Locke e. 9

Science and Medicine

MS. Locke b. 7 [Herbarium pt. 2] | MS. Locke c. 41 [Herbarium pt. 1] | MS. Locke f. 49 [Herbarium index] | MS. Locke c. 29 | MS. Locke c. 37 | MS. Locke c. 42A | MS. Locke c. 44 | MS. Locke d. 5 | MS. Locke d. 9 | MS. Locke d. 11 | MS. Locke e. 4 | MS. Locke f. 18 | MS. Locke f. 19 | MS. Locke f. 20 | MS. Locke f. 21 | MS. Locke f. 22 | MS. Locke f. 23 | MS. Locke f. 24 | MS. Locke f. 25 | MS. Locke f. 47

Library and Book Lists

MS. Locke b. 2 | MS. Locke e. 3 | MS. Locke f. 16 | MS. Locke f. 17

Miscellaneous

MS. Locke b. 4 | MS. Locke c. 25 | MS. Locke c. 31 | MS. Locke c. 32 | MS. Locke c. 33 | MS. Locke c. 39 | MS. Locke c. 42B | MS. Locke c. 46 | MS. Locke d. 1 | MS. Locke e. 17 | MS. Locke f. 14 | MS. Locke f. 33