Autograph letter signed from Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to unidentified recipient [manuscript], 1732 December 11.

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Autograph letter signed from Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to unidentified recipient [manuscript], 1732 December 11.

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Requests the recipient's assistance in extricating some easy chairs of Genoa damask from the Custom house. They are the last remains of his foreign furniture.

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Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl, 1694-1773

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Born into the English aristocracy, the 4th Earl of Chesterfield had the family connections and wealth to live, in the words of the Dictionary of National Biography, as "politician, wit, and letter-writer." Upon the death of Queen Anne in 1714, his family connections enabled him to leave his life of travel and leisure to take up at the age of 20 what was the beginning of a fluctuating political career. Chesterfield was influential in government circles but the role of o...