The Earl of Chesterfield Page

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield ( 1694 - 1773 ) " [ His Letters ] teach the morals of a whore and the manners of a dancing master."--Dr Johnson
Major Works
Lord Chesterfield's Letters, edited by David Roberts, is available in Oxford World's Classics.
The Art of Pleasing ( 1783 ).
Letters to His Son ( 1774; 1787 ).
Letters to His Friends ( 1777 - 78 ).
Characters of Eminent Personages of His Own Time ( 1777 - 78 ).
Letters. Edited by Bonamy Dobrée.
Works by Chesterfield from Project Gutenburg.

About Chesterfield
Samuel Shellabarger, Chesterfield and His World. Little, Brown, 1951.
A Chesterfield Page by Jack Lynch.
Selected Bibliography by Alan T. McKenzie.

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