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An essay concerning toleration

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Description: This autograph manuscript essay is entirely in the hand of John Locke; the one draft is 31 folios in length and the other is only 2 pages. This essay was prepared eighteen years before Locke's "Epistola de Tolerantia," and remained unpublished until Fox Bourne printed it in his "Life of John Locke" in 1876.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1667.
Call number: mssHM 584
Creator: Locke, John (1632-1704)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Maggs Catalogue 427, 1922.
Restrictions: RESTRICTED. Available with curator approval. Extended retrieval and delivery time required.

Some thoughts concerning education

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A work by John Locke about education

146690

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Essays and letter concerning Ishi

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This group of items includes two essays and a letter, all of which relate to the Yana Indian Ishi. One of the essays, written by anthropologist Darwin B. Lyon who assisted Professor T. T. Waterman with the examination of Ishi, describes Lyon's experiences with Ishi including the two of them creating a map of the area in which Ishi lived. Lyon also talks about the Indians in California and their history in general. The other essay and letter are written by Alfred Barstow and also talk about Darwin B. Lyon and Ishi; the letter is addressed to Leslie Edgar Bliss of The Huntington Library.

mssHM 68201-68203

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Terminal essay to "The thousand and one nights"

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"This exhaustive treatise is a supplement to ... the luminous essay by the late John Addington Symonds entitled A problem in Greek ethics." Burton theorizes in this essay that homosexuality is caused by climate, particularly a region known as "The Sotadic zone," and originally appeared as part of the first edition of his translation of the Arabian Nights.

635873

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John Adams, Quincy, Massachusetts, letter to John Quincy Adams :

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Regarding a case argued by John Adams in 1777 in favor of Colonel Elisha Doane and Shearjashub Bourne in maritime court in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, before Judge Brackett.

mssHM 26328

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Richardus Tertius : manuscript

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This manuscript is in two hands, and seems to follow the text of the copy in the University Library, Cambridge; folios 1 to 22 (half page) are in one hand and folios 22 to the end are in another. Preceding f. 1 is an old printed portrait of Richard III; bound in leather, blind tooled with slipcover, also has modern pencil autograph notes on beginning page.

mssHM 179

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Hope Ranch: essay

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This one-page essay, by an unknown author, covers the history of Hope Ranch, Santa Barbara County, California.

mssHM 69385

An essay concerning toleration

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