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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Autograph letter signed to 'My dear Blakeney', 35a Great Cumberland Place, 28 November n.y. [1898], 3 pages, 8vo, bifolium.
'IT IS A STUPID WORLD WE LIVE IN'. On the eve of his departure for India, Churchill has been working on a manuscript by the recipient, and returns a chapter on railways, which he has considerably augmented, in order to increase the force of the argument, defending what Blakeney calls 'padding': 'Please remember that it is a stupid world we live in and one that likes the pill of instruction not only gilded, but plentifully surrounded with jam'. He leaves for India on the following Friday, and wishes to see Blakeney before he goes.
'IT IS A STUPID WORLD WE LIVE IN'. On the eve of his departure for India, Churchill has been working on a manuscript by the recipient, and returns a chapter on railways, which he has considerably augmented, in order to increase the force of the argument, defending what Blakeney calls 'padding': 'Please remember that it is a stupid world we live in and one that likes the pill of instruction not only gilded, but plentifully surrounded with jam'. He leaves for India on the following Friday, and wishes to see Blakeney before he goes.
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