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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Autograph letter signed ('Winston S. Churchill') to Susan [Thyne, nanny to Churchill's cousin Dudley Marjoribanks], n.p., [December 1888], 'Will you come to our annual Christmas Tree, bringing all your charges, on Thursday 27 88. & Bella. We shall expect you at 4.30 & Hoping to see you soon I remain Yours truly Winston S. Churchill', one page, 8vo , on a bifolium; with a typed letter signed by Churchill to Mrs Dupuy [?Dupuiy], 28 Hyde Park Gate, 8 March 1962, thanking her for showing him the letter, one page, 8vo ; and two related items. Provenance : Sotheby's, 6 June 1978, lot 422.
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Autograph letter signed ('Winston S. Churchill') to Susan [Thyne, nanny to Churchill's cousin Dudley Marjoribanks], n.p., [December 1888], 'Will you come to our annual Christmas Tree, bringing all your charges, on Thursday 27 88. & Bella. We shall expect you at 4.30 & Hoping to see you soon I remain Yours truly Winston S. Churchill', one page, 8vo , on a bifolium; with a typed letter signed by Churchill to Mrs Dupuy [?Dupuiy], 28 Hyde Park Gate, 8 March 1962, thanking her for showing him the letter, one page, 8vo ; and two related items. Provenance : Sotheby's, 6 June 1978, lot 422. This appears to be the earliest Churchill letter to have sold at auction (ABPC-online) -- even at the age of 14 his signature is already in its adult form of 'Winston S. Churchill'. In April of this year Churchill had entered Harrow, in the army class which prepared boys for Sandhurst. Writings of Sir Winston Churchill © Estate of Winston S. Churchill