New York Public Library

Berg collection

Letter from Locke to John Strachey, 17 or 18 January 1674.

Superscription: Exeter house 18o Jan. 73

Salutation: Sir

Signature: Sir | Your most affectionate humble servant | John Locke

Address: For John Strachy Esq at Sutton Court To be left at Dr Crosses in Cornestreet Bristoll.

Postmarks: IA 17; OFF 4

Locke’s year is old style; the postmarks makes his date questionable. Answered by Strachey on 10 February.

Printed: Rand (ed.), Clarke correspondence (1927), pages 81-82; Corr., i. 284.


Montague collection

no. 172:

Letter from Locke to Edward Clarke, 4 August 1696.

[printed De Beer, v. 2114; printed (from an abstract) in Rand (ed.), Clarke correspondence (1927), pp. 485-486]