CHESTERFIELD, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of.

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Letters to His Son, Philip Stanhope Esq; First edition, printing the original French alongside English translations. Chesterfield's correspondence with his son aimed towards education in matters "requisite to form the man". Although the teachings were generally greatly admired, Samuel Johnson dismissed them for exhibiting "the morals of a whore and the manners of a dancing master" (Boswell). They were edited by Eugenia Stanhope, the impoverished widow of the earl's illegitimate son.

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