CHURCHILL, Sir Winston Spencer (1874-1965). Photograph signed on mount ('WS Churchill'), studio portrait by Vivienne of London, showing Churchill half-length, seated in an armchair, 153 x 108mm, framed and glazed together with a photograph signed by Clementine Churchill, and a letter signed by Clementine Churchill to Roy A. Dalton, London, March 1950, presenting the photographs in thanks for work during the General Election.
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Two letters signed ('WS Churchill' and 'Winston S. Churchill') to Roy A. Dalton, 20 November 1951 and 18 June 1955, thanking a member of his constituency staff for help in successive general election campaigns, 2 pages, 4°; and a menu signed ('Winston S. Churchill'), also with the signature of Clementine Churchill, for the Eighth Annual Dinner & Dance of the Woodford Division Conservative Association, Monkhams Branch, 18 November 1955; and a cigar butt, approximately 60mm, said to be Churchill's from this occasion; together with three letters and two menus signed and a typescript of a speech by Clementine Churchill, with related photographs, printed items, and records.
Provenance: Roy A. Dalton; and by descent.
Letters and photographs presented to the chairman of Churchill's local Conservative Association.
CHURCHILL, Sir Winston Spencer (1874-1965). Photograph signed on mount ('WS Churchill'), studio portrait by Vivienne of London, showing Churchill half-length, seated in an armchair, 153 x 108mm, framed and glazed together with a photograph signed by Clementine Churchill, and a letter signed by Clementine Churchill to Roy A. Dalton, London, March 1950, presenting the photographs in thanks for work during the General Election.
[and:]
Two letters signed ('WS Churchill' and 'Winston S. Churchill') to Roy A. Dalton, 20 November 1951 and 18 June 1955, thanking a member of his constituency staff for help in successive general election campaigns, 2 pages, 4°; and a menu signed ('Winston S. Churchill'), also with the signature of Clementine Churchill, for the Eighth Annual Dinner & Dance of the Woodford Division Conservative Association, Monkhams Branch, 18 November 1955; and a cigar butt, approximately 60mm, said to be Churchill's from this occasion; together with three letters and two menus signed and a typescript of a speech by Clementine Churchill, with related photographs, printed items, and records.
Provenance: Roy A. Dalton; and by descent.
Letters and photographs presented to the chairman of Churchill's local Conservative Association.
