Philip Dormer Stanhope fourth Earl of Chesterfield
Chesterfield's illegitimate son, Philip Stanhope
, was by all accounts awkward in manner and debilitatingly shy. Chesterfield expended immense effort in the attempt, through a series of advice-letters beginning when Philip was a small child...
Timeline
By April 1774: Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his Son Philip...
Writing climate item
By April 1774
Lord Chesterfield
's Letters to his Son Philip Stanhope were posthumously published by his daughter-in-law Eugenia
; her omission of all material relating to herself gave rise to the story that he had not known...
Texts
Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope, third Earl of. Letters Written by the late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield. Editor Stanhope, Eugenia, J. Dodsley, 1774, 2 vols.
