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Winston Churchill

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Winston Churchill

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Auction Date:2012 Mar 14 @ 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, June 7, 1902, Blenheim Palace letterhead. Churchill writes to “My dear Crisp,” adding “Private” to the top left corner, in full: “That is very 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.” Light toning and a faint area of soiling, mild show-through from writing on the reverse, two punch holes to the top, and a small area of repair to the left edge, otherwise fine condition.

In 1902, Churchill was serving as a Member of Parliament for the town of Oldham; he was elected MP as a Conservative in 1900, marking the beginning of his long career in politics. On the stationery of the Churchill ancestral home, the young politician writes to Charles Crisp, a stockbrocker and fellow Conservative candidate in the election of 1900. Churchill’s “many expenses” included helping his mother discontinue publication of the Anglo-Saxon Review—a magazine she had founded in 1899 but which folded after ten issues. In Parliament, Churchill would eventually break with the Tories, which led him to resign his Oldham seat and run successfully in Manchester as a Liberal MP in 1906.
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