The manuscript of the First Tract on Government (1660).

Fols. 35-36 contains a draft of a letter by Locke to [Gabriel Towerson?], dated 11 December 1660 (deleted in the manuscript); printed in Viano (ed.), Scritti editi e inediti sulla tolleranza (1961), p. 60-61; Abrams (ed.), Two tracts on government (1967), p. 174-175; Goldie (ed.), Selected correspondence, p. 22-23; De Beer i. 108 [not printed; will be printed in the Clarendon edition with the First Tract].

4^o. 180 × 140 mm. 23 quires of two leaves each. Leaves 1-29 numbered by Locke, one unnumbered leaf at the beginning, 13 unnumbered leaves at end (10 blank). Bound in vellum.

i, 47 leaves.