CHURCHILL, Winston S.] ASQUITH, Lady Cynthia (1887-1960). Autograph manuscript journals, 1914-1919, a sequence of ten volumes kept during and after the First World War, London, Stanway, Brighton and other places, 15 April 1915 - 9 November 1919, together with an unpublished "Account of my motor expedition in France", 25 October 1914, including a large number of unpublished passages, approximately 2,300 pages, 4to, annotations, underlinings, cancellations and page numberings in various hands in pencil, crayon and ballpoint ink, some passages cancelled for publication; bound in green, blue, and red morocco, or black moleskin (one), 235 x 190mm - 270 x 220 mm, paper labels (clasps forced open or removed causing damage to covers; covers of volume II detached; scuffed, worn and splitting in spines); with a commonplace book running up to 1946. Provenance: her son Simon Asquith (his signature to 4 volumes); Sotheby's, 22 July 1988, lot 302.
CHURCHILL, Winston S.] ASQUITH, Lady Cynthia (1887-1960). Autograph manuscript journals, 1914-1919, a sequence of ten volumes kept during and after the First World War, London, Stanway, Brighton and other places, 15 April 1915 - 9 November 1919, together with an unpublished "Account of my motor expedition in France", 25 October 1914, including a large number of unpublished passages, approximately 2,300 pages, 4to, annotations, underlinings, cancellations and page numberings in various hands in pencil, crayon and ballpoint ink, some passages cancelled for publication; bound in green, blue, and red morocco, or black moleskin (one), 235 x 190mm - 270 x 220 mm, paper labels (clasps forced open or removed causing damage to covers; covers of volume II detached; scuffed, worn and splitting in spines); with a commonplace book running up to 1946. Provenance: her son Simon Asquith (his signature to 4 volumes); Sotheby's, 22 July 1988, lot 302. A MAJOR SOURCE FOR THE SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND INTELLECTUAL LIFE OF BRITAIN DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR Lady Cynthia Asquith, the daughter of the Earl and Countess of Wemyss and daughter-in-law of H.H. Asquith (prime minister 1908-1916), was at the centre of both cultural and political life during the period of her diaries. She counted many writers and artists among her friends, notably D.H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda, Desmond McCarthy, Augustus John Henry Tonks Siegfried Sassoon, Osbert Sitwell, Duff Cooper (who prompted her to begin her journal, and gave her the first volume) and J.M. Barrie to whom she became secretary in 1918. Well educated, self-absorbed but also sociable, she proves an excellent observer. The diary mixes the apparently frivolous round of aristocratic life, which continued in the Edwardian tradition even in the first years of the war, with the increasingly sombre reports of the war as it begins to take its toll upon her immediate circle (the death of Basil Blackwood in July 1917 has a particularly deep effect, as he had made a declaration of love to her in 1916). Throughout the war D.H. Lawrence was probably her closest confidant: "I find [D.H. and Frieda Lawrence] the most intoxicating company in the world. I never hoped to have such mental pleasure with anyone. It is so wonderful to be such a perfect trois. [Lawrence] has the gift of intimacy and such perceptiveness that he introduces one to oneself ... In his talk there is none of the crudeness and occasional ugliness one finds in his book, but he has passionate resentment against the frame and values of life. He can see nothing but fatuity in the war" (11 May 1915). A fortnight later, "Winston came in rather late from the first Coalition Cabinet. He looks unhappy -- but is very dignified and un-bitter. I have never liked him so much... Winston said that if he could do things over again he would do just the same with regard to appointing Fisher... Though he may be unscrupulous and inclined to trample on susceptibilities of sailors, or whoever he may have to deal with from eagerness [he] is absolutely devoid of any vindictiveness unlike the half caste Fisher who really runs amok from malevolent spleen" (27 May 1915, after Churchill's dismissal from the Admiralty). The conversation of Arthur Balfour, a frequent guest of her mother's, is "wonderfully luminous and fair-minded" and he gives a "wonderfully lucid exposition on artillery and the respective functions of shrapnel and high explosives." Lord Curzon is heard "pontificating on the war-born necessity of some sort of polygamy." At a Downing Street dinner "on so historical a night, the atmosphere was most electric. The P.M. had sent in his resignation at 7.30 ... I sat next to P.M., he was too darling, rubicund, serene, puffing a guinea cigar, a gift from Maud Cunard -- and talking of going to Honolulu. His conversation was as irrelevant to his life as ever. [Lloyd] George has been a wily fox cad. It has been a well managed plot" (6 December 1916). By contrast, towa
CHURCHILL, Winston S.] ASQUITH, Lady Cynthia (1887-1960). Autograph manuscript journals, 1914-1919, a sequence of ten volumes kept during and after the First World War, London, Stanway, Brighton and other places, 15 April 1915 - 9 November 1919, together with an unpublished "Account of my motor expedition in France", 25 October 1914, including a large number of unpublished passages, approximately 2,300 pages, 4to, annotations, underlinings, cancellations and page numberings in various hands in pencil, crayon and ballpoint ink, some passages cancelled for publication; bound in green, blue, and red morocco, or black moleskin (one), 235 x 190mm - 270 x 220 mm, paper labels (clasps forced open or removed causing damage to covers; covers of volume II detached; scuffed, worn and splitting in spines); with a commonplace book running up to 1946. Provenance: her son Simon Asquith (his signature to 4 volumes); Sotheby's, 22 July 1988, lot 302.
CHURCHILL, Winston S.] ASQUITH, Lady Cynthia (1887-1960). Autograph manuscript journals, 1914-1919, a sequence of ten volumes kept during and after the First World War, London, Stanway, Brighton and other places, 15 April 1915 - 9 November 1919, together with an unpublished "Account of my motor expedition in France", 25 October 1914, including a large number of unpublished passages, approximately 2,300 pages, 4to, annotations, underlinings, cancellations and page numberings in various hands in pencil, crayon and ballpoint ink, some passages cancelled for publication; bound in green, blue, and red morocco, or black moleskin (one), 235 x 190mm - 270 x 220 mm, paper labels (clasps forced open or removed causing damage to covers; covers of volume II detached; scuffed, worn and splitting in spines); with a commonplace book running up to 1946. Provenance: her son Simon Asquith (his signature to 4 volumes); Sotheby's, 22 July 1988, lot 302. A MAJOR SOURCE FOR THE SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND INTELLECTUAL LIFE OF BRITAIN DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR Lady Cynthia Asquith, the daughter of the Earl and Countess of Wemyss and daughter-in-law of H.H. Asquith (prime minister 1908-1916), was at the centre of both cultural and political life during the period of her diaries. She counted many writers and artists among her friends, notably D.H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda, Desmond McCarthy, Augustus John Henry Tonks Siegfried Sassoon, Osbert Sitwell, Duff Cooper (who prompted her to begin her journal, and gave her the first volume) and J.M. Barrie to whom she became secretary in 1918. Well educated, self-absorbed but also sociable, she proves an excellent observer. The diary mixes the apparently frivolous round of aristocratic life, which continued in the Edwardian tradition even in the first years of the war, with the increasingly sombre reports of the war as it begins to take its toll upon her immediate circle (the death of Basil Blackwood in July 1917 has a particularly deep effect, as he had made a declaration of love to her in 1916). Throughout the war D.H. Lawrence was probably her closest confidant: "I find [D.H. and Frieda Lawrence] the most intoxicating company in the world. I never hoped to have such mental pleasure with anyone. It is so wonderful to be such a perfect trois. [Lawrence] has the gift of intimacy and such perceptiveness that he introduces one to oneself ... In his talk there is none of the crudeness and occasional ugliness one finds in his book, but he has passionate resentment against the frame and values of life. He can see nothing but fatuity in the war" (11 May 1915). A fortnight later, "Winston came in rather late from the first Coalition Cabinet. He looks unhappy -- but is very dignified and un-bitter. I have never liked him so much... Winston said that if he could do things over again he would do just the same with regard to appointing Fisher... Though he may be unscrupulous and inclined to trample on susceptibilities of sailors, or whoever he may have to deal with from eagerness [he] is absolutely devoid of any vindictiveness unlike the half caste Fisher who really runs amok from malevolent spleen" (27 May 1915, after Churchill's dismissal from the Admiralty). The conversation of Arthur Balfour, a frequent guest of her mother's, is "wonderfully luminous and fair-minded" and he gives a "wonderfully lucid exposition on artillery and the respective functions of shrapnel and high explosives." Lord Curzon is heard "pontificating on the war-born necessity of some sort of polygamy." At a Downing Street dinner "on so historical a night, the atmosphere was most electric. The P.M. had sent in his resignation at 7.30 ... I sat next to P.M., he was too darling, rubicund, serene, puffing a guinea cigar, a gift from Maud Cunard -- and talking of going to Honolulu. His conversation was as irrelevant to his life as ever. [Lloyd] George has been a wily fox cad. It has been a well managed plot" (6 December 1916). By contrast, towa
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