Winston Churchill collection, 1900-1958.

0.08 linear feet (1 box)

English

In English.

Sources unknown.

Arranged by type of material.

This material is open for research.

Winston Churchill was a British army officer, politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, historian and artist.

The collection consists of an autograph letter signed and dated September 28, 1906, from Winston Churchill to Arthur Hutton regarding a speech on West African railway and river development Churchill delivered at the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce on May 5, 1906, with a galley proof of the speech with manuscript corrections by Churchill; an autograph letter signed and dated March 30, 1924, from Churchill to Henry Craik regarding Churchill's recent House of Commons election defeat; a typed memorandum of agreement with G. P. Putnam's Sons signed and annotated by Churchill regarding the terms of publication of the American edition of Churchill's book Great Contemporaries; a caricature print of Churchill by Spy (pseudonym for Sir Leslie Matthews Ward) published by Vanity Fair and dated September 27, 1900; a copy of an undated photograph of Churchill by Cecil Beaton with the caption, "The Man at the Helm"; a New York Herald Tribune editorial cartoon by Vaughn Shoemaker dated March 20, 1958, entitled "Finishing Touches"; and a poster for an exhibition of paintings by Churchill at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1958.

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August 26, 2014

Winston Churchill Collection. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Winston Churchill Collection. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.