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Two letters: a TLS signed "Winston S. Churchill," one page, 7.5 x 9.5, 28 Hyde Park Gate letterhead, May 16, 1956, to Poet Laureate John Masefield, in part: "I should be honoured to become a member of the Society of Authors, and of its Council. Would you please express to them my pleasure at their invitation"; and a TLS signed "W. S. Maugham," one page, 5.25 x 8.25, Villa Mauresque letterhead, March 22, 1956, to Denys Kilham Roberts, General Secretary for the Society of Authors in England, in full: "Winston Churchill was lunching here yesterday, and I asked him if he was a member of the Authors Society. He said he wasn't, and I told him that he ought to be. He said he would like to be. I was wondering whether your Committee would consider electing him as an honorary member. I know he would look upon it as a great compliment." In overall fine condition, with some light creasing to the Churchill letter.
Winston Churchill and Somerset Maugham shared a warm and long-standing friendship rooted in mutual respect for each other’s literary talents. Though best known for his stout leadership of Great Britain during World War II, Churchill was also an extremely accomplished writer, orator, and historian. He would receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 'for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values.'
