Autograph letters. A collection of 61 autograph and typescript letters and notes 1963-79, to poet Toni Markley Ames, mostly in response to her poem 'This Great and Wondrous Man' written in tribute on the death of Sir Winston Churchill in 1965, including Mary Soames, 5th April, 1965 'I am so grateful to you for your letter of sympathy on the death of my Father, and for sending me your poem. All of us in his family have been so moved to realise how revered and beloved my Father was throughout the world'; others from Viscount Head, Robert L Schultz (Executive Assistant to Dwight Eisenhower), Clementine Spencer-Churchill, Lord Ismay, Alec Douglas-Home, Violet Asquith of Yarnbury, Flora Robson, Lester B. Pearson (Canadian Prime Minister), Lord Mountbatten of Burma, Keith Holyoake (New Zealand Prime Minister), The Duke of Norfolk, Yehudi Menuhin, some secretarial replies on behalf of royalty and politicians etc, all contained in modern lever arch file (Qty: 1) Provenance: From the Winston Churchill Collection of Major Alan Taylor-Smith (1928-2019).
Autograph letters. A collection of 61 autograph and typescript letters and notes 1963-79, to poet Toni Markley Ames, mostly in response to her poem 'This Great and Wondrous Man' written in tribute on the death of Sir Winston Churchill in 1965, including Mary Soames, 5th April, 1965 'I am so grateful to you for your letter of sympathy on the death of my Father, and for sending me your poem. All of us in his family have been so moved to realise how revered and beloved my Father was throughout the world'; others from Viscount Head, Robert L Schultz (Executive Assistant to Dwight Eisenhower), Clementine Spencer-Churchill, Lord Ismay, Alec Douglas-Home, Violet Asquith of Yarnbury, Flora Robson, Lester B. Pearson (Canadian Prime Minister), Lord Mountbatten of Burma, Keith Holyoake (New Zealand Prime Minister), The Duke of Norfolk, Yehudi Menuhin, some secretarial replies on behalf of royalty and politicians etc, all contained in modern lever arch file (Qty: 1) Provenance: From the Winston Churchill Collection of Major Alan Taylor-Smith (1928-2019).
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