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CHURCHILL, Sir W.L.S. Autograph letter signed ('W') to Pamela, Countess of Lytton, 105 Mount Street, London, 25 March 1903, 2½ pages, 8°.
'IN POLITICS ONE NEEDS BOWELS OF CHILLED INDIA RUBBER'. Churchill's collection of speeches, Mr Brodrick's Army, is to be published the following day; he dismisses the personal attacks upon him by Government supporters on the Army question - the published speeches will 'vindicate my sincerity'. The letter goes on to contemplate the range of influences brought to bear in political arguments -- 'one needs bowels of chilled india rubber ... I am gradually becoming proof against everything'.
The pamphlet Mr Brodrick's Army was printed privately, and has become one of the rarest of Churchill's publications. Woods considers that 'The original edition cannot ... have been very large', and it does not appear to have sold very rapidly -- copies were advertised on the back cover of For Free Trade which was published 3 years later -- and it is possible that part of the edition was eventually pulped (cf. Woods A6(b)).
'IN POLITICS ONE NEEDS BOWELS OF CHILLED INDIA RUBBER'. Churchill's collection of speeches, Mr Brodrick's Army, is to be published the following day; he dismisses the personal attacks upon him by Government supporters on the Army question - the published speeches will 'vindicate my sincerity'. The letter goes on to contemplate the range of influences brought to bear in political arguments -- 'one needs bowels of chilled india rubber ... I am gradually becoming proof against everything'.
The pamphlet Mr Brodrick's Army was printed privately, and has become one of the rarest of Churchill's publications. Woods considers that 'The original edition cannot ... have been very large', and it does not appear to have sold very rapidly -- copies were advertised on the back cover of For Free Trade which was published 3 years later -- and it is possible that part of the edition was eventually pulped (cf. Woods A6(b)).
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