Lot Essay
Churchill had been appointed to the War Office in Lloyd George's cabinet, with the particular task of dealing with the frictions arising from demobilisation.
Details
SIR WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL (1874-1965)
Letter signed ("Winston S. Churchill") including autograph date, salutation and subscription from the War Office, May 1st, 1919, to Claude Rome, regretting that he cannot help him to get a Territorial Mounted Brigade, "I think there will be a great number of competitors, including Cavalry Brigadiers considerably senior to you", and that he cannot see him at present, "I have no time for friends now & if I made an appointment I should probably have to break it", 1½ pages, 8° (the text of the letter in a secretary's hand in blue ink).
Letter signed ("Winston S. Churchill") including autograph date, salutation and subscription from the War Office, May 1st, 1919, to Claude Rome, regretting that he cannot help him to get a Territorial Mounted Brigade, "I think there will be a great number of competitors, including Cavalry Brigadiers considerably senior to you", and that he cannot see him at present, "I have no time for friends now & if I made an appointment I should probably have to break it", 1½ pages, 8° (the text of the letter in a secretary's hand in blue ink).
Provenance
Claude Rome was a friend of Churchill's from Harrow and Sandhurst.