Auction Date:2012 Aug 15 @ 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
LS signed “Yours sincerely, Winston S. Churchill,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, Board of Trade letterhead, September 24. Letter, sent while president of the Board of Trade, labeled at the top “Private” by Churchill, who also handwrites the greeting, to Alexander Dominicus. In full: “I am much obliged to you for your very kind letter and for the papers which you have been so good as to send me about the Strassburg Labour Exchange. I am having the latter translated and I feel sure that the information contained in them will be of considerable use. Your offer to come over here and give us the benefit of your experience is a most generous one and I shall bear it in mind. Meantime let me thank you most warmly for the kindly way in which you received me at Strassburg and for all the assistance which you gave me.” In fine condition, with some light show-through of ink on reverse of first page. Accompanied by a two-page TLS from Arthur Henderson to Dominicus.
In the first decade of the twentieth century, Germany had the most developed social welfare system in Europe. As an MP and President of the Board of Trade, Churchill visited the country in September 1909 to study its well-established labor exchanges. He was impressed, stating “the honour of introducing them into England would be in itself a rich reward.” Churchill would have that honor, setting up the first British labor exchanges in 1909 to help the unemployed find work and later drafting the first unemployment pension legislation in 1911. In this letter, he thanks Alexander Dominicus, a German official who pioneered reforms in work and youth welfare, for his hospitality during the trip. A fine letter representing the future Prime Minister's pioneering role in establishing social welfare programs in Britain.
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