Auction Date:2012 Feb 15 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : 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
TLS signed “Winston S. Churchill,” one page, 7.5 x 9.5, personal letterhead, August 22, 1950. Letter of thanks to Sir Norman Brook. In full: “I have of course at once deleted the letter to Hardinge to which you refer in your letter of August 17. I am almost profoundly grateful to you for all the help you have given me in my seemingly unending toil. The reconstruction of the SUSPENSE AND STRAIN chapter was a masterpiece. I do not know how you can find the time and energy to help me so much with all the other exacting work you have to do. I am continually oppressed by the sense of the perils which surround us now. I am glad you are in a position where you can do much to ward them off. Old or young, one can only do ones best.” Letter is affixed to an identical sized sheet. In very good condition, with central horizontal and vertical fold, wrinkling and scattered toning from adhesive on reverse, and a punch hole to top left.
Between his two terms as prime minister, Churchill served as Leader of the Opposition and devoted considerable time to his six-volume memoir of the second world war. In this letter he thanks Brook, who had served as a Deputy Secretary to the War Committee during World War II, and who at the time was cabinet secretary, for his help in the editing of the thirty-first chapter of the fourth volume. In true diplomatic fashion, Churchill uses the opportunity of a letter of thanks to further align himself with Britain's highest ranking civil servant. This move would serve him well less than a year later when he would be elected to his second term, over fifty years after first being elected to Parliament.
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