Note 286 — Chapter X
Reading edition
Locke, Works, x. p. 162. The most amusing detail in this literary quarrel is that fifteen years before Desmaizeaux had actually offered Bernard, the editor of the Nouvelles de la République des Lettres, a paper vehemently criticizing Locke. But La Motte interfered, and the offer was declined. However, La Motte kept Desmaizeaux' letter and threatened to publish it. Add. MSS., 4281, fol. 144, and 4286, fol. 242.