"De Joanne Clerico et Philippo A. Limborch Dissertationes Duæ.
Adhibitis Epistolis aliisque Scriptis ineditis scripsit atque
eruditorum virorum epistolis nunc primum editis auxit Abr. Des
Amorie Van Der Hoeven, &c. Amstelodami: apud Fredericum Muller,
1843."

Two letters of Locke are among the MSS. Now it is mentioned by Mr.
Martyn, the biographer of the first Earl of Shaftesbury, in a MS. letter
in the British Museum, that some of this earl's papers were sent by the
family to Le Clerc, and were supposed not to have been returned. I
mention this, as I perceive you have readers and correspondents in
Holland, in the hope that I may possibly learn whether any papers
relating to the first Earl of Shaftesbury have been found among the
lately discovered Le Clerc MSS.; and it is not unlikely that the same
MSS. might contain letters of the third earl, the author of the
_Characteristics_, who was a friend and correspondent of Le Clerc.

W.D. CHRISTIE.

[Footnote 1: Two of these--one a letter asking the earl to stand
godfather to his son, and the other a short note, forwarding a
book (Qy. of Toland's)--are printed by Sir Henry Ellis in his
Camden volume, _Letters of Eminent Literary Men_.--ED.]

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CAXTON'S PRINTING-OFFICE.

The particular spot where Caxton exercised his business, or the place
where his press was fixed, cannot now, perhaps, be exactly ascertained.