Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) Midland Conservative Club. Presidential Address Delivered by Winston Spencer Churchill, Esq., June 1st, 1899, first edition, 16pp., damp-staining to first and final ff., minor loss to a few corners, occasional underlinings in pencil, disbound, some splitting to head and foot of spine, with broken remains of original wrappers, [not in Woods], 8vo, [1899]. ⁂ An unrecorded piece of early Churchilliana. We can trace no other copies at auction and there are no copies listed on either COPAC or WorldCat. The speech gives an excellent insight into the young Churchill's early political thoughts. Churchill gave the speech on 1st June 1899 in the run up to his first foray into politics as an unsuccessful candidate in the Oldham by-election on 6th July of the same year. In the speech the young Churchill sets our his world views, adopting a surprisingly isolationist stance in light of his stance in his later years. The speech was clearly well received, at the end of the pamphlet it is noted "It was resolved amid cheers, that the President's speech should be printed in a pamphlet, and a copy presented to every member of the club." The speech was also reported in several papers including those in America and was printed in full in the The Morning Post. Reporting on the speech was generally very positive with The Morning Post giving a glowing and somewhat prescient write up: "The old politicians had better look to their laurels. Churchill's speech has a force of movement and humor that delighted his hearers and discloses a sense of form and consciousness that oratory is an art, which will leave the public to expect more In that respect than has hitherto been supplied." Other than this edition and its contemporary appearance in the The Morning Post, the only other publication of this speech in full that we can trace was in an appendix to Correspondence: Winston S. Churchill to Christine Lewis Conover 1899-1943, ed. Martin GIlbert, 1996, it does not appear in Winston Churchill His Complete Speeches, 1897-1963, ed. Robert Rhodes James, 1974.
Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) Midland Conservative Club. Presidential Address Delivered by Winston Spencer Churchill, Esq., June 1st, 1899, first edition, 16pp., damp-staining to first and final ff., minor loss to a few corners, occasional underlinings in pencil, disbound, some splitting to head and foot of spine, with broken remains of original wrappers, [not in Woods], 8vo, [1899]. ⁂ An unrecorded piece of early Churchilliana. We can trace no other copies at auction and there are no copies listed on either COPAC or WorldCat. The speech gives an excellent insight into the young Churchill's early political thoughts. Churchill gave the speech on 1st June 1899 in the run up to his first foray into politics as an unsuccessful candidate in the Oldham by-election on 6th July of the same year. In the speech the young Churchill sets our his world views, adopting a surprisingly isolationist stance in light of his stance in his later years. The speech was clearly well received, at the end of the pamphlet it is noted "It was resolved amid cheers, that the President's speech should be printed in a pamphlet, and a copy presented to every member of the club." The speech was also reported in several papers including those in America and was printed in full in the The Morning Post. Reporting on the speech was generally very positive with The Morning Post giving a glowing and somewhat prescient write up: "The old politicians had better look to their laurels. Churchill's speech has a force of movement and humor that delighted his hearers and discloses a sense of form and consciousness that oratory is an art, which will leave the public to expect more In that respect than has hitherto been supplied." Other than this edition and its contemporary appearance in the The Morning Post, the only other publication of this speech in full that we can trace was in an appendix to Correspondence: Winston S. Churchill to Christine Lewis Conover 1899-1943, ed. Martin GIlbert, 1996, it does not appear in Winston Churchill His Complete Speeches, 1897-1963, ed. Robert Rhodes James, 1974.
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