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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Typed letter signed ("Winston S. Churchill") to C. C. Wood, London, 16 November 1957. 1 page, 4to, Hyde Park Gate stationery.
"I HAVE NOW CEASED MY LITERARY ACTIVITIES"
A POIGNANT FAREWELL to the world of letters, addressed to his principal proof reader. He thanks Wood for his work "on the last volume" of the English Speaking Peoples and adds: "As you know, I have now ceased my literary activities, and the fourth volume is therefore the last which will come before you. Pray accept my most warm thanks for what you have done over the years, which I always found to be of great assistance." He encloses a "bonus" payment of £200. Wood--whom Churchill once described as "indefatigable, interminable, intolerable"--proofread Marlborough in the 1930s, but did not endear himself to Churchill or his entourage for his abstemious ways. He neither smoked nor drank, and Churchill decided to do without his services for the Second World War project. However, when the first printing of English edition of The Gathering Storm contain an embarrassing number of typos, Churchill brought him back on board.
"I HAVE NOW CEASED MY LITERARY ACTIVITIES"
A POIGNANT FAREWELL to the world of letters, addressed to his principal proof reader. He thanks Wood for his work "on the last volume" of the English Speaking Peoples and adds: "As you know, I have now ceased my literary activities, and the fourth volume is therefore the last which will come before you. Pray accept my most warm thanks for what you have done over the years, which I always found to be of great assistance." He encloses a "bonus" payment of £200. Wood--whom Churchill once described as "indefatigable, interminable, intolerable"--proofread Marlborough in the 1930s, but did not endear himself to Churchill or his entourage for his abstemious ways. He neither smoked nor drank, and Churchill decided to do without his services for the Second World War project. However, when the first printing of English edition of The Gathering Storm contain an embarrassing number of typos, Churchill brought him back on board.