Churchill (Winston Spencer, 1874-1965). Typed Letter Signed, ‘Winston S. Churchill’, as prime minister, 10 Downing Street, 22 November 1954, thanking ‘Fieldfare’ of The Evening News for their [80th] birthday wishes ‘and for sending me your book of Poy’s cartoons. I am very pleased to accept it , and add it to my library’, an extra sentence then added in Churchill’s hand before the typed subscription, ‘It stirs many memories & no reproaches’, one very small punch hole to upper left blank corner, 10 Downing Street letterhead, 1 page, 8vo, together with the original 10 Downing Street envelope, franked and stamped ‘First Lord of the Treasury’ lower left (Qty: 2) Provenance: From the Winston Churchill Collection of Major Alan Taylor-Smith (1928-2019). Percy Fearon Poy (1874-1948) was a cartoonist and contemporary of Churchill’s whose work he would have known for many decades. Poy worked at the Manchester Evening Chronicle (1905-07), Daily Dispatch and Sunday Chronicle (1907-13). He then moved to London and became a contributor to the Evening News and the Daily Mail until 1939. Amongst his most famous creations were John Citizen, Cuthbert the First World War conscientious objector, Government Gus and Dora. See lot 375.
Churchill (Winston Spencer, 1874-1965). Typed Letter Signed, ‘Winston S. Churchill’, as prime minister, 10 Downing Street, 22 November 1954, thanking ‘Fieldfare’ of The Evening News for their [80th] birthday wishes ‘and for sending me your book of Poy’s cartoons. I am very pleased to accept it , and add it to my library’, an extra sentence then added in Churchill’s hand before the typed subscription, ‘It stirs many memories & no reproaches’, one very small punch hole to upper left blank corner, 10 Downing Street letterhead, 1 page, 8vo, together with the original 10 Downing Street envelope, franked and stamped ‘First Lord of the Treasury’ lower left (Qty: 2) Provenance: From the Winston Churchill Collection of Major Alan Taylor-Smith (1928-2019). Percy Fearon Poy (1874-1948) was a cartoonist and contemporary of Churchill’s whose work he would have known for many decades. Poy worked at the Manchester Evening Chronicle (1905-07), Daily Dispatch and Sunday Chronicle (1907-13). He then moved to London and became a contributor to the Evening News and the Daily Mail until 1939. Amongst his most famous creations were John Citizen, Cuthbert the First World War conscientious objector, Government Gus and Dora. See lot 375.
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