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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Typed letter signed ("Winston S. Churchill"), as Chancellor of the Exchequer, to J. L. Garvin, London, 2 November 1926. 2 pages, 4to, 11 Downing St. stationery, paper clip burn top left corner.
"I THINK THEY WEAR PRETTY WELL AFTER-EXAMINATION."
Churchill thanks Garvin for reading page-proofs of his volume of The World Crisis dealing with the aftermath of the Dardanelles campaign; and he congratulates himself on his wartime memos on the subject. He asks Garvin "to direct your critical judgment" to the chapters, "Thoughts on a Naval Offensive," "The Mechanical Battle on Land," "At the Ministry of Munitions," and "The Autumn Struggle." "Personally I attach importance to these chapters, as they explain as nothing else can do the message I had to give about the war by land and sea after the Dardanelles diversion was impossible. Do you think they are too stodgy for the text?" Churchill broaches the possibility of moving those chapters to an appendix. "On the other hand these authentic documents written at the time impart an authority to the book which is required. I wrote them all myself as the result of the keenest mental effort, and I think they wear pretty well after-examination."
"I THINK THEY WEAR PRETTY WELL AFTER-EXAMINATION."
Churchill thanks Garvin for reading page-proofs of his volume of The World Crisis dealing with the aftermath of the Dardanelles campaign; and he congratulates himself on his wartime memos on the subject. He asks Garvin "to direct your critical judgment" to the chapters, "Thoughts on a Naval Offensive," "The Mechanical Battle on Land," "At the Ministry of Munitions," and "The Autumn Struggle." "Personally I attach importance to these chapters, as they explain as nothing else can do the message I had to give about the war by land and sea after the Dardanelles diversion was impossible. Do you think they are too stodgy for the text?" Churchill broaches the possibility of moving those chapters to an appendix. "On the other hand these authentic documents written at the time impart an authority to the book which is required. I wrote them all myself as the result of the keenest mental effort, and I think they wear pretty well after-examination."