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The publication of Shaftesbury’s ‘Letter Concerning Design’

The 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury’s Letter Concerning the Art, or Science of Design was finished early in 1712; Shaftesbury, abroad in Naples and already ailing, sent the manuscript to London, addressed to Lord Somers. Within a year the author was dead. In his last two years of life, Shaftesbury had been able not only to prepare for the press the second edition (London, John Darby, 1714) of his Characteristicks, first published in 1711, but also to put together a sequel which he entitled Second Characters. This new work was to consist of four essays, the first being the Letter Concerning Design and the second the Judgment of Hercules.