Winston S. Churchill Autograph Letter Signed.

CHURCHILL, Winston S.

Item Number: 88008

One page typescript letter signed by Winston S. Churchill while serving as a member of Parliament. On 105 Mount Street stationary dated March 15th, 1901 and addressed to J. Travis Clegg, Esq. Shaw Lodge, Shaw. “Dear Mr. Travis Clegg,” I have forwarded your recommendation for the Leesfield Vicarage to the First Lord of the Treasury, and I have drawn his attention to the fact that I attach very great weight to a recommendation from such a quarter. I have received about 30 letters on the subject of this living, recommending more than 12 candidates, none of whom I know; and in consequence, the course I have pursued has been to forward all the names with the recommendations attached, to the First Lord of the Treasury, marking them in the order of relative importance which I assigned to them from what I know of those who have forwarded recommendations. In reply I have received a letter from Mr. Balfour promising carefully to consider the recommendations I have forwarded to him, and the order of importance I have assigned to them. More than that I cannot do. I am coming down to Oldham on the 20th of April, and I hope I shall be so fortunate as to see you then. “Yours very truly, Winston S. Churchill.” Churchill took seat in the British House of Commons in February of 1901 and was soon asked by Prime Minister Arthur Balfour to join a parliamentary select committee on the topic of the Boer War. Churchill opposed an increase in military funding for the war and became increasingly associated with the Liberals including H.H. Asquith. The present letter is in response to English lawyer J. Travis Clegg’s recommendation for the Leesfield Vicarage to the First Lord of the Treasury. Double matted and framed with a black and white photograph of Churchill. The entire piece measures 20.25 inches by 16.5 inches.

British statesman Winston S. Churchill served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A non-academic historian, writer and artist, Churchill won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for his overall lifetime body of work. Churchill took the lead in warning the world about the threat of Nazi Germany at the outbreak of the Second World War. His speeches and radio broadcasts inspired British resistance, especially in the years of 1940–41 when the British Commonwealth and Empire stood virtually alone in its active opposition to Adolf Hitler. Upon his death aged ninety in 1965, Queen Elizabeth II granted Churchill the honor of a state funeral, which saw one of the largest assemblies of world statesmen in history.