Sep 25, 2008 - Sale 2155

Sale 2155 - Lot 55

Price Realized: $ 2,450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
"I DID NOT WANT TO GET INVOLVED IN TALKS ABOUT BELGIAN AFFAIRS" CHURCHILL, WINSTON. Typed Letter Signed, with holograph salutation, "Private. My dear [André] de Staerke," thanking him for sending his money, denying reports in the newspapers that he "dined with the Duke of Windsor to meet King Leopold," who had not been invited to the dinner because he "told the Duke of Windsor that I did not want to get involved in talks about Belgian affairs," and touching on the weather, his painting, and the progress with the book [his Marlborough biography?]. 2 pages, small 4to, written on two sheets, "28, Hyde Park Gate" stationery; folds, hole punched in upper left corner, minor paperclip staining at top left of first page. Monte-Carlo, 5 January 1948