A Typed Letter Signed by Winston Churchill - Churchill, Winston

A typed letter on Churchill's stationary from his home at 28, Hyde Park Gate, London. To the manager of the Westminster Bank, Westerham, Kent near Churchill's country house Chartwell. The manager of the bank was Peter Williams and it was he who dealt with Churchill's affairs there. This letter relates to the opening of a bank account for Churchill's Newchapel Stud Farm. Churchill had been persuaded in 1949 by his son-in-law Christopher Soames to buy a racing colt Colonist II for £2000. Colonist II was a fortuitous purchase - one newspaper wrote "no horse in living memory has put up such a sequence of wins in good-class races in one season, eight wins (six in succession)reads like something inspiredby the great indefatigable spirit of his owner". Churchill saddled seventy winners over the next fifteen years. With Christopher Soames he set up his own stud farm, first at Chartwell and later at Newchapel in Surrey. "It doesn't fall to many people to start a racing career at the age of seventy five" Churchill later reflected, "and to reap from it such pleasure." Signed in blue ink by Churchill. A letter of provenance from Patricia Owen, the daughter of Churchill's bank manager Peter Williams is attached. Condition: Good. A central vertical and horizontal fold with some light signs of handling.

Date Published: 1963
Publication Place: London

Condition: Good. A central vertical and horizontal fold and some light signs of handling.