TLS signed “Winston S. Churchill,” one page, 4.75 x 7, personal Chartwell letterhead, July 2, 1955. Letter to Desmond Flower. In part: “I will willingly lay the Foundation Stone for your new building‚ though I had hopes that Volume I of The History of the English Speaking Peoples would be published before April.” Nicely double-matted with a portrait of Churchill to an overall size of 16.25 x 12. In fine condition. Flower was a publisher, book collector, and scholar who headed the Cassell & Co. publishing house, through whom Churchill published most of his writing, including the four-volume A History of the English-Speaking Peoples in 1956. Churchill laid the foundation stone for Cassell’s new building in London’s Red Lion Square in February 1956. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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