OF ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER, FIRST EARL OF SHAFTESBURY. 1621-1683. DY W. D. CHRISTIE, M.A., FORMERLY HER MAJESTY'S MINISTER TO THE ARGENTINE CONFEDERATION TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. London and New York: MACMILLAN AND CO. 1871. [The Right of Translation and Reproduction is reserved.] PREFACE. I PUBLISHED, Some twelve years ago, a volume of papers illustrating Shaftesbury's Life to the Restoration, then intending to make a second similar volume with the papers which I had collected for the remaining and more important portion of his life. Several causes delayed the prosecution of the second volume; and I ultimately judged it better to relinquish it, and to prepare from the materials which I had acquired a connected biography of Shaftesbury. The first volume of this work contains, either incorporated into the narrative or inserted in the Appendices, all the important materials of the volume of 1859. The remainder of this work, after Chapter VIII. of the first volume, is entirely new. The original materials for this Life of Shaftesbury have been chiefly derived from the following sources:-1. The papers preserved at St. Giles's, to which the present Lord Shaftesbury has given me access. 2. The Locke papers in possession of the Earl of Lovelace. "Memoirs, Letters, and Speeches of A. A. Cooper, first Earl of Shaftesbury, Lord Chancellor, with other Papers illustrating his Life. Edited by W. D. Christie." London, 1859. |