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Add MS 38771

Record Id:

032-002058093

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002058093

MDARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Add MS 38771

Title:

JOHN LOCKE, "Some Directions concerning ye Education of his son, sent to his worthy Freind M^r. Edward Clarke of Chipley, 1684": autograph MS. of the tract afterwards published in a somewhat expanded form (1693) as Some Thoughts concerning Education. It was written during the period of Locke's exile in Holland, and its composition was interrupted by the circumstance of his moving from place to place during his "ramble this sommer about these provinces [i.e. the United Provinces]," as he says, in a letter which accompanies the work, on f. 51b. Another letter of Locke to Clarke, who was M.P. for, Taunton and Comptroller of the Household to Queen Mary II, is in Add. MS. 32096, f. 1. Paper ; fi: 52. 4¹/₄ in. x 3¹/₄ in. A.D. 1684. Belonged, in 1913, to Col. E. C. A. Sanford, C.M.G., a descendant of Edward Clarke (Sotheby's sale-cat, 28 July, 1913, lot 195).

Scope & Content:

John Locke: Directions to E. Clarke on the education of his son: 1684.: Autogr.

Education: Some thoughts concerning, by J. Locke: 1684.: Autogr. draft.

Edward Clarke, of Chipley Park, county Somerset, MP for Taunton: J. Locke's Some Thoughts concerning Education addressed to: 1684.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002058093

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Hierarchy:

032-002058093

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 item

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1684

End Date:

1684

Date Range:

1684

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Custodial History:

Colonel Edward Charles Aysh-ford Sanford, CMG: Owned: in 1913.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Clarke, Edward, of Chipley Park, county Somerset, MP for Taunton
Locke, John, of Add MS 38342
Sanford, Edward Charles Aysh-ford, Colonel; CMG