AT THE HEIGHT OF WORLD WAR II BRITISH PRIME MINISTER, WINSTON S. CHURCHILL

ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF: AMERICA: THE STORY OF A FREE PEOPLE THAT WAS DEDICATED TO HIM AND TO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

 

CHURCHILL, SIR WINSTON S.  (1874-1965).  British politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1940-1945, 1951-1955).  Choice Typed Letter Signed,  ‘Yours sincerely, / Winston S. Churchill’, as war-time Prime Minister, on crested and imprinted ‘10 Downing Street / Whitehall’ stationery.  One full page, quarto.  London, December 17, 1942. File hole in bland margin, else extremely fine condition.  To the Vice Chancellor, Oxford University.  Churchill writes:

“My dear Vice Chancellor, It was good of you to send me a copy of ‘America: The Story of a Free People’, which has been so kindly dedicated to me as well as to President Roosevelt by the two authors. I was much-interested to learn of the helpful action taken by them and by the Clarendon Press in the interests of Anglo-American understanding, to which I am sure this book will be a valuable contribution.   Yours sincerely, / Winston S. Churchill”.

 

The years 1939-1942 were bleak ones for the Allies, yet at the close of 1942, things look much brighter for the Allies than they did just a few months earlier.  German Field Marshall and Tank Commander Rommel was trapped in Tunisia and about to abandon North Africa; the Germans were encircled at Stalingrad by the ever strengthening Russian army; and the Japanese appeared ready to abandon Guadalcanal.  Churchill letters written as PM, on imprinted Prime Minister’s stationery and of war-date are truly scarce, and are highly desirable.  Just a choice item for the collector desiring a war-time letter from Churchill’s pen.          

 

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