Winston S. Churchill Typed Letter Signed to Lady Lloyd-George.

Rare Typed Letter Signed by Winston S. Churchill to Frances Stevenson, Lady Lloyd-George

Winston S. Churchill Typed Letter Signed to Lady Lloyd-George.

CHURCHILL, Winston S. [Frances Stevenson Lady Lloyd-George].

Item Number: 117064

Rare typed letter signed by Winston S. Churchill to Frances Stevenson, Lady Lloyd-George, the widow of his predecessor, David Lloyd George. Two pages, on Churchill’s personal letterhead with his Hyde Park Gate address, the letter reads: “22 May, 1946 My dear Lady Lloyd George, I had a talk with Sir Edward Bridges today. Naturally they have anxiety about the custody and destination of very important State documents, although belonging to a bygone era. I am executing a Trust Deed which safeguards the use of such documents, and I also feel it my duty to give guarantees for their safe custody so that they do not fall into bad hands, and the control of the Government on publication is effective. I have no doubt that you would be willing to make similar arrangements. Sir Edward Bridges told me he would get in touch with you and have a talk about it all. I should recommend you to conform with the arrangements which I am making, and I expect that will be found satisfactory for the very limited class of ex-Prime Ministers in victorious war time. Perhaps you will write to me after you have had your talk with Bridges. With all good wishes, Believe me, “Yours truly Winston S. Churchill.” The recipient, Frances Stevenson, Lady Lloyd George first met David Lloyd George in 1911 when she began working as a governess to his daughter Meghan, she soon became Lloyd George’s secretary and, from early 1913, his long-term mistress. In 1943, two years after the death of his first wife Margaret, Lloyd George married Frances; he was 80 years old at the time. Frances was an able archivist of her husband’s papers both before and after his death. Churchill clearly understood this, as he writes that he expects the arrangements “will be found satisfactory for the very limited class of ex-Prime Ministers in victorious war time.” In near fine condition. A fine association.

Welsh statesman David Lloyd George served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922. As wartime Chancellor, he strengthened the country's finances and forged agreements with trade unions to maintain production. Lloyd George appointed Winston S. Churchill to his War Cabinet in 1917 as Minister of Munitions. Churchill soon rose through the ranks serving successively as Secretary of State for War, Secretary of State for Air, and Secretary of State for the Colonies. In the last important parliamentary intervention of his career, which occurred during the crucial Norway Debate of May 1940, Lloyd George made a powerful speech that helped to undermine Chamberlain as Prime Minister and to pave the way for the ascendancy of Churchill. "In any poll of modern historians Winston Churchill and David Lloyd George would emerge as the two most renowned prime ministers during the past century" (Shepherd, 57).

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