WINSTON WRITES TO MAX - "GOOD FORTUNE TIES ME BY THE LEGS"
CHURCHILL
(Sir Winston Spencer, 1874-1965, Prime Minister)
Superb Typed Letter Signed ("W") to his friend and colleague "Max" BEAVERBROOK
(Lord, 1879-1964, Newspaper Proprietor & Statesman) thanking him for his letter and the promise "to give me the photograph from the 'Daily Express' which I should very much like to see ...", he then goes on to say that he "cannot accept your offer of the house. I am tied up here and my plans are still vague. Owing to winning a £6,000 race yesterday I have moved into the Derby sphere, which I cannot desert, so I cannot take your most attractive proposal. Good fortune ties me by the legs .." but he looks forward to meeting him later in the month for "lunch or dinner. I am so glad you have conquered the return of asthma ...", 1 side 4to., Chartwell, Westerham headed paper, 20th April
Item Date:
1945
Stock No:
34611
£3750
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[CHURCHILL
(Sir Winston Spencer, 1874-1965, Prime Minister)]
Fine large unsigned original photo
showing him riding a large black horse wearing a suit and bowler hat, holding a whip, 11" x 9¼", no place, no date, but
slightly yellowed around edges
Item Date:
1948
Stock No:
28255
£225
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CLARENDON
(George William Frederick Villiers, 1800-1870, Statesman, from 1838 4th Earl)
Autograph Letter Signed to "My dear Augustus"
saying that he had "waited to answer your letter until I had made the enquiry you desired & I now enclose the unsatisfactory result ...", 1 side 8vo., F. O. (Foreign Office), 22nd January
Item Date:
1869
Stock No:
41101
£95
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CLARENDON
(Edward Hyde Villiers, 1846-1914, Lord Chamberlain 1900-1905, 5th Earl)
Autograph Letter Signed to G. Maquay,
thanking him for the "Lasciapassare ... and for the letter to your Firm at Rome", 1 side 8vo. black-edged, Hotel d'Italie, 28th October
Item Date:
1876
Stock No:
19243
£15
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CLARENDON
(George Herbert Hyde Villiers, 1877-1955, from 1914 6th Earl, Governor-General of South Africa, 1931-1937, Lord Chamberlain, 1938-1952)
Commission Document signed as Governor-General to Nigel Alers Hankey,
"reposing especial trust and confidence in your Loyalty, Courage, and Good Conduct", and appointing him to the Union Defence Forces as 2nd Lieutenant in the Active Citizen Force, printed in a bold italics with typed (dot-matrix style) additions, large blind embossed seal of the Union, 13¼" x 17", Durban, 29th June
a little browning in fold and small portion of margin
Item Date:
1935
Stock No:
52535
£95
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