CHURCHILL, Winston S. (1874-1965). Autograph letter signed ('Winston S.C.') to [his cousin] Ivor [Guest, later 1st Viscount Wimborne], [?Balmoral], 6 September 1902, returning an article of Ivor's which he has corrected, and describing the pleasures of deer-stalking with the King [Edward VII], boasting 'Today I stalked deer & slew in two shots after one hour's walk two fat ones' and hoping that this will absolve him for the year; the King and court are present and 'we move among the great ones of the earth', one page, 8vo , bifolium.
CHURCHILL, Winston S. (1874-1965). Autograph letter signed ('Winston S.C.') to [his cousin] Ivor [Guest, later 1st Viscount Wimborne], [?Balmoral], 6 September 1902, returning an article of Ivor's which he has corrected, and describing the pleasures of deer-stalking with the King [Edward VII], boasting 'Today I stalked deer & slew in two shots after one hour's walk two fat ones' and hoping that this will absolve him for the year; the King and court are present and 'we move among the great ones of the earth', one page, 8vo , bifolium. Churchill was still at Balmoral on 27 September, when he wrote to his mother that Edward VII had 'gone out of his way to be nice to me' ( Companion , Vol.II, pt.1, p.164).
CHURCHILL, Winston S. (1874-1965). Autograph letter signed ('Winston S.C.') to [his cousin] Ivor [Guest, later 1st Viscount Wimborne], [?Balmoral], 6 September 1902, returning an article of Ivor's which he has corrected, and describing the pleasures of deer-stalking with the King [Edward VII], boasting 'Today I stalked deer & slew in two shots after one hour's walk two fat ones' and hoping that this will absolve him for the year; the King and court are present and 'we move among the great ones of the earth', one page, 8vo , bifolium.
CHURCHILL, Winston S. (1874-1965). Autograph letter signed ('Winston S.C.') to [his cousin] Ivor [Guest, later 1st Viscount Wimborne], [?Balmoral], 6 September 1902, returning an article of Ivor's which he has corrected, and describing the pleasures of deer-stalking with the King [Edward VII], boasting 'Today I stalked deer & slew in two shots after one hour's walk two fat ones' and hoping that this will absolve him for the year; the King and court are present and 'we move among the great ones of the earth', one page, 8vo , bifolium. Churchill was still at Balmoral on 27 September, when he wrote to his mother that Edward VII had 'gone out of his way to be nice to me' ( Companion , Vol.II, pt.1, p.164).
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