CHESTERFIELD, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of (1694-1773). Autograph letter signed to [Solomon] Dayrolles, Blackheath, 25 September 1754, two pages, 4to (crease across lower left corner, lower margin reinforced on verso, remnants of paper strip affecting inner margin of recto).
CHESTERFIELD, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of (1694-1773). Autograph letter signed to [Solomon] Dayrolles, Blackheath, 25 September 1754, two pages, 4to (crease across lower left corner, lower margin reinforced on verso, remnants of paper strip affecting inner margin of recto). 'COULD MY LETTERS BE LESS DULL, THEY SHOULD BE MORE FREQUENT BUT WHAT CAN A DEAF VEGETABLE WRITE TO AMUSE A LIVE MAN WITH?'. Lord Chesterfield's letter to his godson, Solomon Dayrolles, by his own admission runs 'into the moral essay of a Solitaire'. He has been suffering from his 'usuall giddynesses ... and disorders', which a taking of the 'spaa waters gave me but what the builders call a half repair ... a mere temporary vamp', but has become philosophical in the face of encroaching illnesses, 'Pleasures I think of no more, let those run after them who can overtake them, but I will not hobble and halt after them in vain.' Given his physical ailments, he must amuse himself by 'reading, some writing, some trifling in my garden, and some contemplation'. Turning to other matters (' Changeons de These '), he is to winter in London, out of social duty to his wife and servants who 'would be very miserable here', and talks fondly of his godson, presumably his eventual successor, Philip Stanhope, known as 'Sturdy', '[he] now begins to chatter and confound two or three languages'. Chesterfield kept up a prolific correspondence with his godson from 1761, and also wrote frequently to the young Lord Huntingdon, whom he mentions here, as 'charmed with those [civilities] which he received from Prince Charles and Comte Cobentzel'. Solomon Dayrolles (d.1786) held the position of 'master of the revels' at court, and in 1745 accompanied his godfather on a diplomatic mission to The Hague as his private secretary. Stanhope managed to secure him the post of resident at The Hague in 1747; after four years Dayrolles was transferred to Brussels, where he stayed until 1757.
CHESTERFIELD, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of (1694-1773). Autograph letter signed to [Solomon] Dayrolles, Blackheath, 25 September 1754, two pages, 4to (crease across lower left corner, lower margin reinforced on verso, remnants of paper strip affecting inner margin of recto).
CHESTERFIELD, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of (1694-1773). Autograph letter signed to [Solomon] Dayrolles, Blackheath, 25 September 1754, two pages, 4to (crease across lower left corner, lower margin reinforced on verso, remnants of paper strip affecting inner margin of recto). 'COULD MY LETTERS BE LESS DULL, THEY SHOULD BE MORE FREQUENT BUT WHAT CAN A DEAF VEGETABLE WRITE TO AMUSE A LIVE MAN WITH?'. Lord Chesterfield's letter to his godson, Solomon Dayrolles, by his own admission runs 'into the moral essay of a Solitaire'. He has been suffering from his 'usuall giddynesses ... and disorders', which a taking of the 'spaa waters gave me but what the builders call a half repair ... a mere temporary vamp', but has become philosophical in the face of encroaching illnesses, 'Pleasures I think of no more, let those run after them who can overtake them, but I will not hobble and halt after them in vain.' Given his physical ailments, he must amuse himself by 'reading, some writing, some trifling in my garden, and some contemplation'. Turning to other matters (' Changeons de These '), he is to winter in London, out of social duty to his wife and servants who 'would be very miserable here', and talks fondly of his godson, presumably his eventual successor, Philip Stanhope, known as 'Sturdy', '[he] now begins to chatter and confound two or three languages'. Chesterfield kept up a prolific correspondence with his godson from 1761, and also wrote frequently to the young Lord Huntingdon, whom he mentions here, as 'charmed with those [civilities] which he received from Prince Charles and Comte Cobentzel'. Solomon Dayrolles (d.1786) held the position of 'master of the revels' at court, and in 1745 accompanied his godfather on a diplomatic mission to The Hague as his private secretary. Stanhope managed to secure him the post of resident at The Hague in 1747; after four years Dayrolles was transferred to Brussels, where he stayed until 1757.
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