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ENTERING DOWNING STREET
MARGARET THATCHER
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MARGARET THATCHER
Typescript signed ('Margaret Thatcher'), with autograph subscription 'As spoken 4 May 1979', of four lines from a prayer attributed to St Francis of Assisi. One page, A4, on cream paper, framed and glazed.
'Where there is Discord may we bring Harmony
Where there is Error may we bring Truth
Where there is Doubt may we bring Faith
Where there is Dispair [sic] may we bring Hope'.
On 4 May 1979, on her return from Buckingham Palace after having been charged with forming a new administration, Thatcher quoted 'some words of St Francis of Assisi' during her brief interview with the media in Downing Street before entering No.10 for the first time as Prime Minister.
Her contemporary notes for the interview survive on a 10 x 5cm card in the Thatcher Archive, and in television footage she can be seen apparently consulting this during the 'St Francis' quotation. The present typescript is evidently a retrospective quotation some time after the event.
Curiously, the attribution to St Francis is now considered to be spurious: the prayer appears to have been published for the first time only in 1912, in French, and the attribution to St Francis is thought to date from as late as 1927.
Typescript signed ('Margaret Thatcher'), with autograph subscription 'As spoken 4 May 1979', of four lines from a prayer attributed to St Francis of Assisi. One page, A4, on cream paper, framed and glazed.
'Where there is Discord may we bring Harmony
Where there is Error may we bring Truth
Where there is Doubt may we bring Faith
Where there is Dispair [sic] may we bring Hope'.
On 4 May 1979, on her return from Buckingham Palace after having been charged with forming a new administration, Thatcher quoted 'some words of St Francis of Assisi' during her brief interview with the media in Downing Street before entering No.10 for the first time as Prime Minister.
Her contemporary notes for the interview survive on a 10 x 5cm card in the Thatcher Archive, and in television footage she can be seen apparently consulting this during the 'St Francis' quotation. The present typescript is evidently a retrospective quotation some time after the event.
Curiously, the attribution to St Francis is now considered to be spurious: the prayer appears to have been published for the first time only in 1912, in French, and the attribution to St Francis is thought to date from as late as 1927.
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