Lord Chesterfield's Letters
Chesterfield, Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope / Roberts, David (Visiting Lecturer, Visiting Lecturer, Osaka University)![Lord Chesterfield's Letters](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/397/3976195/CHSBZCOP033976195.jpg)
Not originally intended for publication, the celebrated and controversial correspondences between Lord Chesterfield and his son Philip, dating from 1737, were praised in their day as a complete manual of education, and despised by Samuel Johnson for teaching "the morals of a whore and the manners of a dancing-master." Reflecting the political craft of a leading statesman and the urbane wit of a man who associated with Pope, Addison, and Swift,...