TYPED BIRTHDAY THANK-YOU NOTE SIGNED BY WINSTON CHURCHILL TO JOHN "JOCK" COLVILLE
Winston S. Churchill
Publication Date: 1958
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A typed thank-you note on 28 Hyde Park Gate notepaper, dated "3 December, 1958," three days after Churchill's 84th Birthday, to John Colville, Churchill's Private Secretary during World War II, and after, right through Churchill's second stint as Prime Minister. No one was closer to Churchill at work than Sir John Rupert Colville (1915-1987), familiarly known as "Jock."Dear Jock,Thank you so much for the book about Dilke.I look forward to reading it very much, and it was most kind of you to choose such an interesting present for my birthday. Yours ever, (In ink, all in Churchill's hand:)W.This gift book would appear to have been "DILKE: A Victorian Tragedy," by future Churchill biographer Roy Jenkins, which came out in 1958. Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke was a noted Radical Liberal politician whose career was destroyed by a scandalous divorce case in 1886. Churchill's son, Randolph, in Volume I of the Official Biography cites from Jenkins' Dilke biography: "that after a walk at Mentmore with Lord Roseberry one Sunday afternoon in May 1880, Dilke noted that he ?came to the conclusion that Roseberry was the most ambitious man I had ever met.' Many years later Dilke wrote in the margin alongside this opinion: ?I have since known Winston Churchill.'". Seller Inventory # 142924
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Title: TYPED BIRTHDAY THANK-YOU NOTE SIGNED BY ...
Publication Date: 1958
Binding: No Binding
Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed
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