BIB_ID
300375
Accession number
MA 231.2
Creator
Locke, John, 1632-1704.
Display Date
1678 July 26.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.5 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of 24 autograph letters signed, a letter signed, and an autograph document. Items in the collection are described in individual records (MA 231.1-26).
With postmark and seal.
With postmark and seal.
Provenance
Jacques-Charles Brunet Sale (Paris, 1867); from the "Royal House of Stuart" collection; inserted in this volume in 1922.
Summary
Thanking him for his letter and apologizing for not replying sooner; mentioning their common friend Mr. Brisbane; discussing the use of a microscope to look at tin powder; mentioning the hygrometer; congratulating him on his recent victory in the courts; noting that he is enjoying a book by Abbé Gendron both for its subject matter and Gendron's "spelling of words"; asking for an address in Paris where he can send a book [Sir William Petty's work on duplicate proportion] while Toinard is away.
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