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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Autograph letter signed ("Winston S. C.") to Muriel Wilson, n.d. [1904]. 3 pages, 8vo, 105 Mount Street stationery.
"IF YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT ME AT ALL, YOU ARE QUITE RIGHT. BUT IT IS A SAD PITY & A SCATTERING OF TREASURE. I LOVE YOU"
"WHY SHOULDN'T YOU CARE ABOUT ME SOMEDAY?" A devastated Churchill-- writing within hours of his rejected proposal of marriage--makes a desperate, anguished appeal to the woman he loves. In his distress, Churchill may have neglected the salutation, or possibly this is the surviving portion of a larger letter. It begins: "This is what I wanted to say on the way back. You are not certain in your own mind. Don't slam the door. I can wait--perhaps I shall improve with waiting. Why shouldn't you care about me someday? I have great faith in my instinct which was so very strong. Time & circumstances will work for me. Meanwhile I won't pester you," he says, before immediately pestering her to see him again "before Monday." Clearly one of Miss Wilson's reasons for rejecting him was her aversion to politics, which she rightly sensed was Churchill's greatest passion. If she grants him another audience he promises to "try to talk trivialities...for I am not going to be thrust back into my grey world of politics without a struggle." He says that "At present I feel quite sick," but "when I have got hold of myself again" he promises not to "be such a fool as to bore you." But "of course, if you don't care about me at all, you are quite right. But it is a sad pity & a scattering of treasure. I love you because you are good & beautiful..." One thing he pledges never to change is his love for her. In spite of his instincts and determination, he did not win Muriel's hand. But the two remained friends for the rest of their lives.
"IF YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT ME AT ALL, YOU ARE QUITE RIGHT. BUT IT IS A SAD PITY & A SCATTERING OF TREASURE. I LOVE YOU"
"WHY SHOULDN'T YOU CARE ABOUT ME SOMEDAY?" A devastated Churchill-- writing within hours of his rejected proposal of marriage--makes a desperate, anguished appeal to the woman he loves. In his distress, Churchill may have neglected the salutation, or possibly this is the surviving portion of a larger letter. It begins: "This is what I wanted to say on the way back. You are not certain in your own mind. Don't slam the door. I can wait--perhaps I shall improve with waiting. Why shouldn't you care about me someday? I have great faith in my instinct which was so very strong. Time & circumstances will work for me. Meanwhile I won't pester you," he says, before immediately pestering her to see him again "before Monday." Clearly one of Miss Wilson's reasons for rejecting him was her aversion to politics, which she rightly sensed was Churchill's greatest passion. If she grants him another audience he promises to "try to talk trivialities...for I am not going to be thrust back into my grey world of politics without a struggle." He says that "At present I feel quite sick," but "when I have got hold of myself again" he promises not to "be such a fool as to bore you." But "of course, if you don't care about me at all, you are quite right. But it is a sad pity & a scattering of treasure. I love you because you are good & beautiful..." One thing he pledges never to change is his love for her. In spite of his instincts and determination, he did not win Muriel's hand. But the two remained friends for the rest of their lives.