Beschreibung:

Incomplete autograph letter from Bolingbroke to an unknown correspondent, reading in part "I grow such a swine in Epicureism, & so attached to true volupty, that if these Pearls were thrown before me, there they should lye. her Grace of Malborough may want more riches, and Walpole more power; I have enough of both... I have been tossed all my life in Storms, and have been Shipwrecked more than once. at last my vows to heaven are payed and I renounce ye Fatal element. can you be surprised that I do not care to live on the Beach, and that I remove my little Hut beyond ye roar of ye Sea...", four pages, intersecting folds, pencil annotations to top left corner, slight surface creasing, remnants of previous mount to left edge, 4to, Chantelou, 15 August 1735