The salon and English letters

by Chauncey Brewster Tinker

[53] Works of Bolingbroke 7. 169; letter to Hanmer, December 1712 (?).

[54] Ib., 7. 87; 17 October 1712. Prior to Bolingbroke.

[55] Lettres Historiques de Bolingbroke (Paris 1808), 2. 431; 3 June 1715.

[56] Dictionary of National Biography, ‘Saint John.’

[57] See the ribald verses commencing, ‘Tencin, vous avez de l’esprit,’ printed in Lettres de Bolingbroke, op. cit., 2. 433 n. The second stanza begins, ‘Bolingbroke, es-tu possédé?’

[58] Letters, edited by Bradshaw, 1. 383; 24 December 1750.

[59] See his letter to Madame de Tencin, introducing Mrs. Cleland, in Letters, as above, 2. 771; 20 August 1742.

[60] Letters, op. cit., 1. 383.

[61] See Professor P. M. Masson’s excellent monograph, Madame de Tencin (Paris 1909), pp. 278-80. The appendix contains Madame de Tencin’s letters.

[62] Cf. Montesquieu, Lettres; 12 March 1750 (in Œuvres, Paris 1879): ‘Dîtes à milord Chesterfield que rien ne me flatte tant que son approbation,’ and the rest.