1667

Contents:

Weather diary

Essay on toleration (unknown)

Medical case notes (1667-1670)

Weather diary

See   description under 1666.

Essay on toleration   [begun in 1667]

Locations:

1. Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California, MS. HM 584
2. Bodleian Library, MS. Locke c. 28, ff. 21-32.
3. Adversaria 1661, pp. 106-125.
4. Public Record Office, London, PRO 30/24/47/1

Description:   An untitled paper, commonly called “Essay on [or concerning] toleration.” Four manuscript versions exist. The relationships among them has been worked out by J. R. Milton in “Locke’s Essay on toleration : text and context” / J.R. Milton. // IN: British journal for the history of philosophy. — 1:no. 2 (Sept. 1993):45-63.

The Huntington MS. is the oldest and most complex, containing “a heavily amended version of the whole Essay, a fair copy of the first few pages of this, and several draft fragments.” At the end Locke wrote “Sic cogitavit Atticus 1667.” (This date appears on all versions).

The version in the Bodleian bears the title “An Essay Concerning Toleracon | 1667.” The manuscript consists of five quires, signed A-E; all but the first consist of a single sheet of paper folded once; the first quire has an extra sheet inserted, containing only two additions to the text; a third addition is written on f. 28^v ($C2^v). The leaves measure c. 327 × 210 mm. Each quire is endorsed “Toleration | 67.” Locke numbered the original text pp. 1-17; ff. 22-23 inserted into quire A are not numbered. The manuscript is not in Locke’s hand and cannot be dated, although Milton argues that it derives from the Huntington MS., and is earlier than the version in “Adversaria 1661.”

The version in the notebook known as “Adversaria 1661” is also based on the Huntington MS. From its position in the notebook, it can be dated to 1672. The manuscript is not in Locke’s hand, but is captioned by him “Toleration 67.” At the end Locke wrote “Sic Cogitavit JL 1667.” It contains two additions to the text (p. 125), the second in Locke’s hand (p. 125, continued on pp. 270-271), which Milton argues were written in 1674-1675.

The version in the Shaftesbury papers in the Public Record Office is a fair copy with no corrections, based (according to Milton) on the Bodleian MS. It is not in Locke’s hand. It bears the title “An Essay Concerning Toleracion 1667.”
Folio. 242 × 184 mm. [A]-[B]¹⁰. The text is written on the recto pages only; ff. 35-40 blank.

The versions from the Lovelace Collection (#2 and 3 above) were not widely available until the 1950s, although Lord King used them in his Life of Locke. The earliest accessible version was that in the Shaftesbury papers, which was used by Fox Bourne and others. No critical edition of the paper exists, although all four manuscripts have been used to some extent in the publications listed below. Microfilm copies of the Huntington MS. [MS. Film 151] and “Adversaria 1661” [MS. Film 77] are available in the Bodleian Library.

Publications:

1. [Extract from the PRO MS:] The life of John Locke : with extracts from his correspondence, journals and common-place books / by Lord King. – London : H. Colburn, 1829. – p. 156; London : H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830. – v. 1:289-291. – Also includes the second addition from the “Adversaria 1661” MS.
2. [From the PRO MS:] The life of John Locke / by H.R. Fox Bourne. – London : H.S. King ; New York : Harper, 1876. – v. 1:174-195.
3. [Additions to the Bodleian MS:] John Locke’s political philosophy : eight studies / by J. W. Gough. – Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1950. – p. 197-199.
4. [From the Bodleian MS:] Scritti editi e inediti sulla tolleranza / John Locke ; a cura di Carlo Augusto Viano. – Torino : Taylor, 1961. – p. 81-107. [Locke #949]. – Includes some draft material from the Huntington MS. – Also includes an Italian translation (p. 158-198)
5. [From the Bodleian MS:] An essay concerning toleration ; and Toleratio / John Locke ; collated, with an introduction and notes, by Kimimasa Inoue. – Nara, Japan : The Society for the Study of Locke’s Political Philosophy, 1974. [Locke #951]
6. [From the Bodleian MS:] Political writings / John Locke ; edited and with an introduction by David Wootton. – London ; New York : Penguin Books, 1993. – p. 186-210. [Locke #867+]
7. [From the Bodleian MS:] Political essays / Locke ; edited by Mark Goldie. – Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997. – p. 134-159. [Locke #867+]
8. An essay concerning toleration and other writings on law and politics, 1667-1683 / John Locke ; edited with an introduction, critical apparatus, notes and transcription of ancillary manuscripts by J.R. Milton and Philip Milton. – Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2006. – (The Clarendon edition of the works of John Locke). – p. 265-315. – This critical edition is based on the Huntington MS, and includes the additions in the Bodleian and “Adversaria 1661” MSS.
9. [French translation:] Lettre sur la tolérance / John Locke … ; (précédé de) Essai sur la tolérance (1667) … ; traduction par Jean-Fabien Spitz … – Paris : GF-Flammarion, c1992. – 269 p. – (GF ; 686) [Locke #74+]
10. [Spanish translation:] Ensayo y carta sobre la tolerancia / John Locke ; traducción y prólogo de Carlos Mellizo. – Madrid : Alianza, 1999. [Locke #84A]

Discussions:   Milton 1993 (see Description above); Milton & Milton, publication #8.

Medical case notes   [1667 September to 1670 September]

Location:   British Library, Add. MS. 5714.

Description:   Medical case notes in Latin in Locke’s hand, made at various dates between September 1667 and September 1670. The twenty-one patients whose histories are described include Locke’s cousin, Peter Locke; William Sydenham, son of Thomas Sydenham; Lady Dorothy Ashley, the wife of the future second Earl of Shaftesbury; and Thomas Grigg, Rector of St Andrew Undershaft.

Withington and Dempster refer to the notes as “Observationes medicae.”

17 leaves. 231 × 178 mm. Most leaves are double (folded once), but some single leaves. Mounted in guardbook. Presented by William Seward, Esq., 1834.

Publications:

1. [Latin text:] “Locke as a medical practitioner” / by E.T. Withington. // IN: Janus. – 4 (1899):393-398, 457-463, 527-532, 579-587.
2. [English translation:] “John Locke’s Medical observations” / by the foreign editor [E.T. Withington]. // IN: Medical magazine (London). – 7 (1898):47-50, 375-387, 573-579.
3. [Latin text:] “John Locke, physician and philosopher” / by James Herbert Dempster. // IN: Annals of medical history. – New series:4 (1932):12-60, 172-186. – Reprinted from publication #1 above.

Discussions:   Withington and Dempster, publications above.