Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, Secretary of State under Queen Anne, fled to France in 1715 and served the Old Pretender before breaking with him. His long letter to the Tory leader Sir William Windham explains that episode and the Jacobite court’s follies; a second letter to his friend Alexander Pope follows, with Henry Morley’s introduction.
Brilliant, self-justifying prose from one of the great political stylists of the eighteenth century. Download the free EPUB.