Auction Date:2011 Aug 10 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
ALS, one page both sides, 4.75 x 7.75, Blenheim Palace letterhead, June 7, 1902. Churchill writes fellow conservative Charles Crisp. In full: “That is v[er]y kind of you indeed, and I am sorry to put you to so much trouble. I wish I could have waited till the investment should fructify, but I have so many expenses and now that I have undertaken to help my mother in winding up the review I have no choice. I go to Oldham on Friday for a meeting; but there are so many things I want to talk to you about that we must arrange a dinner in the last fortnight of this month. I think there will be a general election in less than two years.” Churchill has marked “Private” at the upper left corner. In very good to fine condition, with light toning, areas of mild soiling and some professional restoration of paper loss along the top left edge, two filing punch holes at the top of the page interrupting the word “Private” and the date, and faint show-through from writing on opposing sides.
Churchill and Crisp were fellow Conservative candidates in 1900 Parliamentary election in Oldham who, by 1902, had shared some investments. Now, Churchill expresses his regret in having to wind up that investment under the obligation of his “many expenses,” which included helping his mother discontinue publication of the Anglo-Saxon Review—a magazine she had founded in 1899 but which folded after ten issues. Churchill closes an invitation and a tantalizing admission that “I think there will be a general election in less than two years.”
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