Letters to His Son, 1746-1747: On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman

The first set in an extraordinary collection of personal letters, written by Lord Chesterfield

Not originally intended for publication, the celebrated and controversial correspondences between Lord Chesterfield and his son Philip 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 wit...