Sep 25, 2008 - Sale 2155

Sale 2155 - Lot 56

Price Realized: $ 1,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
CHURCHILL, WINSTON. Typed Letter Signed, "Yours sincerely, Winston S. Churchill," to his paint-manufacturing friend, "dear Willy Sax," thanking him for his letter, expressing interest in the "new colours," and arranging a meeting in England. 1 page, 4to; hole punched in left margin at top, folds. With the original envelope. "at La Pausa, Roquebrune, A.M.," 19 March 1956

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". . . I was very interested to hear of the new colours.
"It would have given me much pleasure to see you here, but unfortunately I am not in my own house, and I feel somewhat diffident in adding to the numbers which my hosts have already arranged to come here.
"Perhaps I may therefore defer seeing you until my reutrn to England in a few weeks time? . . ."