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A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke was originally published in 1689.

Its initial publication was in Latin, though it was immediately translated into other languages.

Locke's work appeared amidst a fear that Catholicism might be taking over England, and responds to the problem of religion and government by proposing religious toleration as the answer.

This " letter " is addressed to an anonymous " Honored Sir ": this was actually Locke's close friend Philipp van Limborch, who published it without Locke's knowledge.