CHURCHILL, Winston S. Autograph letter signed ("Winston S. Churchill"), to James B. Pond, Russia House, Toronto, 29 December 1900. 1 page, 8vo .
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Autograph letter signed ("Winston S. Churchill"), to James B. Pond, Russia House, Toronto, 29 December 1900. 1 page, 8vo . CHURCHILL GOES ON A SPEAKING TOUR OF NORTH AMERICA in this early letter to the great lecture circuit empresario, Major James B. Pond. A Civil War veteran, Pond managed lecture tours for practically every major public and intellectual figure of the late 19th century: Oscar Wilde, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Ward Beecher, Mark Twain, and scores of others. Churchill's overnight fame for his daring escape from the Boer prisoner of war camp made him a fitting new client of Pond's Lyceum Theatre Lecture Bureau. "I shall be obliged," Churchill writes, "if you will come to see me this morning at 10:15, as it is necessary that our relations should be placed upon a proper footing." Relations between the two men did not stay proper. They fell out over money and Churchill would later describe Pond as that "vulgar Yankee impresario."
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Autograph letter signed ("Winston S. Churchill"), to James B. Pond, Russia House, Toronto, 29 December 1900. 1 page, 8vo .
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Autograph letter signed ("Winston S. Churchill"), to James B. Pond, Russia House, Toronto, 29 December 1900. 1 page, 8vo . CHURCHILL GOES ON A SPEAKING TOUR OF NORTH AMERICA in this early letter to the great lecture circuit empresario, Major James B. Pond. A Civil War veteran, Pond managed lecture tours for practically every major public and intellectual figure of the late 19th century: Oscar Wilde, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Ward Beecher, Mark Twain, and scores of others. Churchill's overnight fame for his daring escape from the Boer prisoner of war camp made him a fitting new client of Pond's Lyceum Theatre Lecture Bureau. "I shall be obliged," Churchill writes, "if you will come to see me this morning at 10:15, as it is necessary that our relations should be placed upon a proper footing." Relations between the two men did not stay proper. They fell out over money and Churchill would later describe Pond as that "vulgar Yankee impresario."
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