Folio Society Published Works Number 327
Stanhope, Philip - Philip Stanhope, Fourth Earl Of Chesterfield: Letters To His Son
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Stanhope, Philip - Philip Stanhope, Fourth Earl Of Chesterfield: Letters To His Son (Published in by The Folio Society in 1973. Illustrated by Richard Shirley Smith. British statesman and diplomat Phillip Stanhope, better known as Lord Chesterfield, is remembered today for his letters to his son, which were written almost daily from 1732 onwards. Never intended for publication, the letters provide a guide to 18th-century notions of sophisticated social behavior and good manners. Though the letters have been widely admired, some readers have found them to be unpleasantly calculating. Samuel Johnson observed that they teach the morals of a whore and the manners of a dancing-master. )
