Catalogue Entry: ALCH00059

Original letter from Locke to Newton, dated London, 26 July 1692.

Author: John Locke

Metadata: Not yet dated, in English , c. 400 words, 2 pp.

Source: Keynes Ms. 98, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Custodial History

Bought at the Sotheby sale by Maggs Brothers for £38 and sold to Keynes on 4 August 1936 for the sale price plus 20%.

Sotheby Lot

SL143

Contents

Includes a copy of two alchemical recipes (the first, headed 'First Period', being only part of a longer process with the rest of which Newton was apparently familiar), found among the papers of Boyle (d. 30 December 1691), which were being inspected by Locke, 'Dr Dickison' (i.e. Edmund Dickinson) and Dr [Daniel] Cox [or Coxe, another associate of Boyle].

Related Material

Printed in Brewster (1855), 2: 461-2 and NC, 3: 216-17. Newton's reply (2 August 1692) is in the Bodleian and printed in NC, 3: 217-19.