Acknowledgements . . vi Introduction . . vii Note on the Text . . xxviii Select Bibliography . . xxxiii A Chronology of Voltaire . . xxxvii LETTERS CONCERNING THE ENGLISH NATION . . 1 Appendices A: Letter XXV, 'On Paschal's Thoughts concerning Religion, &c.' . . 122 B: Extracts from Voltaire's An Essay upon the Civil Wars of France and also upon the Epick Poetry of the European Nation from Homer down to Milton . . 151 C: Extract from Oliver Goldsmith's Memoirs of M. de Voltaire . . 162 D: Original anecdote of Voltaire and a Quaker . . 172 Explanatory Notes . . 175