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Chesterfield (Philip Dormer, fourth Earl of) Autograph

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Chesterfield (Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of, politician and diplomatist, 1694-1773) Autograph Letter to his illegitimate son Philip Stanhope, with an additional autograph note signed by George Nichol, publisher at end, 1½pp. with conjugate blank and address panel "To Master Stanhope", sm. 4to, no place no date, [1742], instructional letter on the geography of Asia, the Middle East and Africa, "North of Persia, Indostan, and China...", folds, four small tears starting along folds, browned.

⁂ Published as letter 90 in Chesterfield's Letters written... to his son, Philip Stanhope, 2 vol., J.Dodsley, 1774.

"The overwhelming concern of Chesterfield's later life was plotting and monitoring the career of his son Philip: 'his success in the world', he wrote in 1751, 'is now the only object I have in it' (Letters, 4.1735). The series of 448 letters to his son began when the boy was five and continued until within four weeks of his death in 1768 at the age of thirty-six. At their peak, from 1748 to 1752, the long and earnest homilies were landing on Philip's table at the rate of one a fortnight. The result was predictable. The boy grew up shy, deceitful, graceless, and awkward... . When Philip died in 1768 at the age of thirty-six, Chesterfield discovered that he had been secretly married for ten years... and had two sons, Charles and Philip." - Oxford DNB.

Provenance: "A letter written by Lord Chesterfield to his Son Mr Stanhope which as Executor to Mr Dodsley I found among his papers George Nicol Given to John Thomas Smith Keeper of the Prints in the British Museum March 4th 1822."

George Nicol (1740?-1828), bookseller and publisher; James Dodsley (1724-1797), bookseller; John Thomas Smith (1766-1833), printmaker and draughtsman.

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Chesterfield (Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of, politician and diplomatist, 1694-1773) Autograph Letter to his illegitimate son Philip Stanhope, with an additional autograph note signed by George Nichol, publisher at end, 1½pp. with conjugate blank and address panel "To Master Stanhope", sm. 4to, no place no date, [1742], instructional letter on the geography of Asia, the Middle East and Africa, "North of Persia, Indostan, and China...", folds, four small tears starting along folds, browned.

⁂ Published as letter 90 in Chesterfield's Letters written... to his son, Philip Stanhope, 2 vol., J.Dodsley, 1774.

"The overwhelming concern of Chesterfield's later life was plotting and monitoring the career of his son Philip: 'his success in the world', he wrote in 1751, 'is now the only object I have in it' (Letters, 4.1735). The series of 448 letters to his son began when the boy was five and continued until within four weeks of his death in 1768 at the age of thirty-six. At their peak, from 1748 to 1752, the long and earnest homilies were landing on Philip's table at the rate of one a fortnight. The result was predictable. The boy grew up shy, deceitful, graceless, and awkward... . When Philip died in 1768 at the age of thirty-six, Chesterfield discovered that he had been secretly married for ten years... and had two sons, Charles and Philip." - Oxford DNB.

Provenance: "A letter written by Lord Chesterfield to his Son Mr Stanhope which as Executor to Mr Dodsley I found among his papers George Nicol Given to John Thomas Smith Keeper of the Prints in the British Museum March 4th 1822."

George Nicol (1740?-1828), bookseller and publisher; James Dodsley (1724-1797), bookseller; John Thomas Smith (1766-1833), printmaker and draughtsman.

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