CHURCHILL WINSTON S Typed Letter Signed with holograph salut

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"I AM VERY ANXIOUS ABOUT THE FUTURE" CHURCHILL, WINSTON S. Typed Letter Signed, with holograph salutation and closing and postscript, to biographer Philip Guedalla, thanking him for his letter, stating that recent events have done much harm in the United States, suggesting a meeting, and adding a holograph postscript: "I am v[er]y anxious about the future." 1/2 page, 4to, personal stationery; folds, faint foxing along upper edge, staple holes and creases at upper left corner. "Chartwell" Westerham, 22 April 1938

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with--Two items: A retained copy of Guedalla's three-page letter to Churchill, dated April 20, 1938, explaining that American opinion in Washington and elsewhere had been "embarrassingly pro-British" until March, when it was "replaced by a feeling that H[er] M[ajesty's] G[overnment] had turned its back on the free peoples and decided to fraternise with the gangsters [Nazis]" Philip Guedalla. Mr. Churchill. 8vo, publisher's cloth; dust jacket. New York, (1942). Later edition.