This is a summary by a journalist in the Guardian; the original scholarship is in the Journal of Modern History (paywalled)[0]. tldr: scholars have never been

This is a summary by a journalist in the Guardian; the original scholarship is in the Journal of Modern History (paywalled)[0]. tldr: scholars have never been able to say very much concrete about John Locke's intellectual relationship to Thomas Hobbes, despite these two dudes being the most important 17th-century English political philosophers. Locke's work often appears to be responding to Hobbes, but he conspicuously never mentions him by name. But wait! This new manuscript is a (third-hand) account saying that Locke read Hobbes's Leviathan closely earlier in his life and even recommended the book to others, but later would deny that he ever read it. (Also the manuscript says some other mean things about Locke which are of maybe less scholarly interest.) It's an interesting sort of find, although 17th-century intellectual history was not my specialty when I was a historian so it's hard to say how really important it is in terms of reorienting that sub-field. Bigger picture, I suppose it depends on how much you care about what Locke thought of Hobbes. [0] https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/714068 https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/714068