拍品专文
Churchill had been appointed Home Secretary on February 15th, 1910. Edward VII died under three months later on May 6th.
细节
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL (1874-1965)
A one-page document on paper with three integral blanks, constituting a 15-line "approved" address in Churchill's hand, on paper bordered in black and headed First Lord of the Treasury, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall (both headings crossed through in pencil), the address to be spoken by George V on the death of his predecessor Edward VII, undated but signed by George V at the head.
The address reads: "The King knows that the House of Commons shares in the profound and sudden sorrow which has fallen upon His Majesty's father, the late King; & that the House entertains a true sense of the loss which His Majesty and the Nation have sustained from this mournful event. King Edward's care for the welfare of His country and His people, His skilled and prudent guidance of affairs, His unwearying devotion to public duty during His illustrious reign, His simple courage in pain and danger, will long be held in honour by His subjects at home & beyond the seas."
Together with a second document signed by George V. (2)
A one-page document on paper with three integral blanks, constituting a 15-line "approved" address in Churchill's hand, on paper bordered in black and headed First Lord of the Treasury, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall (both headings crossed through in pencil), the address to be spoken by George V on the death of his predecessor Edward VII, undated but signed by George V at the head.
The address reads: "The King knows that the House of Commons shares in the profound and sudden sorrow which has fallen upon His Majesty's father, the late King; & that the House entertains a true sense of the loss which His Majesty and the Nation have sustained from this mournful event. King Edward's care for the welfare of His country and His people, His skilled and prudent guidance of affairs, His unwearying devotion to public duty during His illustrious reign, His simple courage in pain and danger, will long be held in honour by His subjects at home & beyond the seas."
Together with a second document signed by George V. (2)