![CHURCHILL, Winston S. Autograph letter signed ('Winston S. Churchill') to Pamela [Plowden, later Countess of Lytton], [States Model School prison], Pretoria, 18 November [1899], one page, 4to; envelope with stamp of Commandant General and other markings. Provenance: by descent from Pamela, Countess of Lytton; Christie's, 2 December 2003, lot 49.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2010/CKS/2010_CKS_07912_0018_000(churchill_winston_s_autograph_letter_signed_to_pamela_[plowden_later_c062053).jpg?w=1)
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Autograph letter signed ('Winston S. Churchill') to Pamela [Plowden, later Countess of Lytton], [States Model School prison], Pretoria, 18 November [1899], one page, 4to; envelope with stamp of Commandant General and other markings. Provenance: by descent from Pamela, Countess of Lytton; Christie's, 2 December 2003, lot 49.
FROM THE PRISONER-OF-WAR CAMP: 'Not a vy satisfactory address to write from -- although it begins with P ... I expect to be released as I was taken quite unarmed and with my full credentials as a correspondent. But I write you this line to tell you that among new and vivid scenes I think often of you'.
Churchill had been captured on 15 November whilst taking vigorous and even heroic part in the defence of an armoured train against a Boer ambush: when his (somewhat disingenuous) arguments that he should be released as a non-combatant were rejected, he resolved to escape, and did so on 12 December.
Writings of Sir Winston Churchill © Estate of Winston S. Churchill
FROM THE PRISONER-OF-WAR CAMP: 'Not a vy satisfactory address to write from -- although it begins with P ... I expect to be released as I was taken quite unarmed and with my full credentials as a correspondent. But I write you this line to tell you that among new and vivid scenes I think often of you'.
Churchill had been captured on 15 November whilst taking vigorous and even heroic part in the defence of an armoured train against a Boer ambush: when his (somewhat disingenuous) arguments that he should be released as a non-combatant were rejected, he resolved to escape, and did so on 12 December.
Writings of Sir Winston Churchill © Estate of Winston S. Churchill
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