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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Letter signed (“Winston S. Churchill”), to C. E. Mallet (1862-1947), London, 22 November 1904. 3 pages, 8vo, 105 Mount Street stationery. Text in hand of Edward Marsh.
“I AM DEEP INTO WRITING MY FATHER’S LIFE,” Churchill tells Mallet, “and do not think I can undertake, profitably, at this juncture, to add to my literary work.” Mallet proposed a set of Churchill’s speeches, one year after the publication of Mr Brodrick’s Army (1903) and two years before For Free Trade (1906). “If you would care to collect and compile the various speeches I have made on the fiscal question in the House and in the country, I should be very glad to correct and revise them for publication: but I am inclined to think the public are sick of the whole subject.” Mallet’s role as Honorary Secretary of the Free Trade Society allow for the possibility that he is broaching the idea of what would become For Free Trade. Mallet briefly served in Parliament from 1906-1910 and later wrote biographies of Lloyd George and Gladstone.
“I AM DEEP INTO WRITING MY FATHER’S LIFE,” Churchill tells Mallet, “and do not think I can undertake, profitably, at this juncture, to add to my literary work.” Mallet proposed a set of Churchill’s speeches, one year after the publication of Mr Brodrick’s Army (1903) and two years before For Free Trade (1906). “If you would care to collect and compile the various speeches I have made on the fiscal question in the House and in the country, I should be very glad to correct and revise them for publication: but I am inclined to think the public are sick of the whole subject.” Mallet’s role as Honorary Secretary of the Free Trade Society allow for the possibility that he is broaching the idea of what would become For Free Trade. Mallet briefly served in Parliament from 1906-1910 and later wrote biographies of Lloyd George and Gladstone.