This volume presents a critical and annotated edition of the correspondence between Astell and John Norris of Bemerton (1657-1711), Letters Concerning the Love of God, which was published in three separate editions during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (1695, 1705, 1730). It includes, as contextual material, Norris's Cursory Reflections upon a Book Call'd, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690), the first published philosophical response to John Locke's "new way of ideas," and Astell's "Appendix" to the second edition of The Christian Religion, As Professed by a Daughter of the Church of England (1717), a comprehensive attack on Locke's perceived shortcomings as a thinker.

E. Derek Taylor is an Assistant Professor of English at Longwood University. He has published several essays on Norris and Astell and is nearing completion on two related projects. Melvyn New has been a Professor of English at the University of Florida for more than thirty-five years and is the General Editor of the University Press of Florida edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne, six volumes of which are now in print.

Contents: Introduction; Works cited; A note on the text; Letters Concerning the Love of God; Notes to Letters Concerning the Love of God; Appendices; Index.