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Auction archive: Lot number 305

CHURCHILL, Sir Winston Spencer (1874-1965) Autograph letter ...

Estimate
£1,500 - £2,000
ca. US$2,300 - US$3,067
Price realised:
£1,750
ca. US$2,684
Auction archive: Lot number 305

CHURCHILL, Sir Winston Spencer (1874-1965) Autograph letter ...

Estimate
£1,500 - £2,000
ca. US$2,300 - US$3,067
Price realised:
£1,750
ca. US$2,684
Beschreibung:

CHURCHILL, Sir Winston Spencer (1874-1965). Autograph letter signed ('Winston') to Pamela, Countess of Lytton, Chartwell, 30 June 1955, 3 pages, 8vo ; envelope (annotated on envelope by recipient 'Lovely letter'). Provenance : Pamela, Countess of Lytton; and by descent.
CHURCHILL, Sir Winston Spencer (1874-1965). Autograph letter signed ('Winston') to Pamela, Countess of Lytton, Chartwell, 30 June 1955, 3 pages, 8vo ; envelope (annotated on envelope by recipient 'Lovely letter'). Provenance : Pamela, Countess of Lytton; and by descent. 'THE TRAPPINGS OF POWER & RESPONSIBILITY HAVE FALLEN AWAY'. The letter opens with anxious enquiries about Pamela's ill-health (which had kept her away from the ceremony at the Guildhall to unveil the Oscar Nemon statue of Churchill) and apologies for not have written: 'I have wanted to write to you every single day & am ashamed at myself'. The Guildhall ceremony was 'the last public engagement I have', though the statue was 'worth the worry these things take me now. I am getting older now the trappings of power & responsibility have fallen away'. Debilitated by old age and the stroke he had suffered in June 1953, Churchill had resigned office on 5 April 1955.

Auction archive: Lot number 305
Auction:
Datum:
13 Nov 2008
Auction house:
Christie's
13 November 2008, London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

CHURCHILL, Sir Winston Spencer (1874-1965). Autograph letter signed ('Winston') to Pamela, Countess of Lytton, Chartwell, 30 June 1955, 3 pages, 8vo ; envelope (annotated on envelope by recipient 'Lovely letter'). Provenance : Pamela, Countess of Lytton; and by descent.
CHURCHILL, Sir Winston Spencer (1874-1965). Autograph letter signed ('Winston') to Pamela, Countess of Lytton, Chartwell, 30 June 1955, 3 pages, 8vo ; envelope (annotated on envelope by recipient 'Lovely letter'). Provenance : Pamela, Countess of Lytton; and by descent. 'THE TRAPPINGS OF POWER & RESPONSIBILITY HAVE FALLEN AWAY'. The letter opens with anxious enquiries about Pamela's ill-health (which had kept her away from the ceremony at the Guildhall to unveil the Oscar Nemon statue of Churchill) and apologies for not have written: 'I have wanted to write to you every single day & am ashamed at myself'. The Guildhall ceremony was 'the last public engagement I have', though the statue was 'worth the worry these things take me now. I am getting older now the trappings of power & responsibility have fallen away'. Debilitated by old age and the stroke he had suffered in June 1953, Churchill had resigned office on 5 April 1955.

Auction archive: Lot number 305
Auction:
Datum:
13 Nov 2008
Auction house:
Christie's
13 November 2008, London, South Kensington
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