 1691
Contents:
Location:
British Library, MS. Sloane 4039, ff. 261-270.
Description:
A fair copy in the hand of Locke’s last manservant William Shaw, with notes in Locke’s hand,
with the title “A Register Kept by Mr Locke at Oates.”
Not in Locke’s hand, apart from some initial entries, some of the headers, and some annotations.
Enclosed in a letter from Locke to Hans Sloane, 15 March 1704 (ff. 259-260) [Letter #3489].
Sloane was in 1704 the secretary of the Royal Society and editor of Philosophical transactions;
the manuscript shows editorial markings (by Sloane?) indicating sections not to be included in the printed version,
which appeared in the April issue.
Publications:
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“A register of the weather for the year 1692, kept at Oates in Essex.” By Mr. John Locke. // IN:
Philosophical transactions. For the month of April 1705. Numb. 298:1917-1937.
Discussions:
De Beer, vol. 8:239.
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