Bodleian Library, Oxford University

MS. Locke c. 39

A guardbook in which are mounted miscellaneous papers acquired by the Bodleian between 1951 and 1957.

22 leaves.

f. 3:

Drafts for The fundamental consitutions of Carolina [1669?]; typescript of the original manuscript in the possession of Peter Laslett.

ff. 5-10:

“Qs on S.P.’s [Samuel Parker’s] discourse of toleration” (1669); acquired from Sotheby, 15 March 1954, lot 265.

ff. 11-14:

Two letters to William Godolphin from Cleve, 1665-66. Lot 709 in Sotheby’s sale, 11 December 1957; purchased with aid from E. S. de Beer.

ff. 11-12:

Letter to Godolphin, 19/29 December 1665 [draft or copy in MS. Locke c. 24, ff. 251^v-252^v].

[printed De Beer, i. 178]

ff. 13-14:

Letter to Godolphin, 30 December 1665/9 January 1666 [draft or copy in MS. Locke c. 24, ff. 254^v-255^v].

[printed De Beer, i. 181]

f. 15:

Letter from Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury, 23 May 1702; purchased at Sotheby’s sale, 11 December 1957, lot 720.

[printed De Beer, vii. 3139]

ff. 21-22:

Letter to Nicolas Toinard, 11/21 July 1678.

[printed De Beer, i. 390A]