Holiday 2024 Autographs & Memorabilia Auction - Closes Saturday, Dec. 14th, 2024

Lot #216:

Sir Winston Churchill Signed Letter with Great Content RE: Publishing A Book (Beckett/BAS LOA)

This 8" x 10" 1937 Letter has been personally signed by Sir Winston Churchill. This typed Letter Initialed, to Charles C. Wood, December 14, 1937, with appended typed list of chapters for volume IV. 3 pp. on “Chartwell” stationery. Some staining and foxing; otherwise very good condition please refer to photos for condition. In this brief letter to the chief copy editor for his publishers, Winston Churchill sends an addition to a chapter mid-way through Volume IV of his four-volume biography of his ancestor, John Churchill, the 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722). George G. Harrap & Company published Volume IV in 1938, with "The New Regime" as chapter XX in that volume. In the appended Table of Contents, Churchill crosses out the titles of three chapters and retitles them, though the first is later merged with another chapter before publication.

The item is to include a full Letter of Authenticity from Beckett Authentication Services.