George Selwyn

A curated selection of personal letters, supported by editorial narrative and notes, chronicles the life, friendships, and public milieu of an eighteenth-century British wit and long-serving public figure. The correspondence, arranged by period and supplemented with contextual remarks, records social life at clubs and salons, gambling and fashionable amusements, parliamentary and political discussions including responses to imperial setbacks and revolutionary upheaval, and private concerns such as health and estate affairs. Portraits and introductory material sketch the subject’s character, reputation for wit, and relationships with leading contemporaries, while the compiled timeline and indices assist readers in following the sequence of events.