Churchill, Sir Winston Spencer
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("WINSTON S. CHURCHILL") TO SIR ALFRED [THOMAS]
£1,875
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Auction: 9 October 2019 at 12:00 BST
Description
thanking him for his kind letter and many other encouragements ("... I am glad indeed that you liked my speech. We have a good cause to present to the public..."), one page, 8vo, House of Commons, 12 June 1907
Footnote
Note: The letter from Sir Alfred Thomas, Liberal MP, later Lord Pontypridd, to Churchill, congratulating him on his South Africa Speech of 20 June, is in the Churchill Papers (CHAR 12/26). (Purchased Bonhams, 13 Nov. 2007, lot 418, for £1100 hammer)