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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Typed letter signed ('W.') to Sir Edward Marsh, Chartwell, 6 May 1939, returning a letter from Siegfried Sassoon, and asking him to pass on Churchill's pleasure at the knowledge that they are 'in such close political sympathy ... it seems to me quite certain that his pen will be most helpful should war come', one page, 4to ; with 9 letters by Marsh to Sassoon, and two from the private secretary to the prime minister, Stanley Baldwin, 1936-1939, concerning Marsh and Sassoon's unsuccessful attempts to obtain a pension for the mother of Sassoon's fellow war poet Wilfred Owen.
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Typed letter signed ('W.') to Sir Edward Marsh, Chartwell, 6 May 1939, returning a letter from Siegfried Sassoon, and asking him to pass on Churchill's pleasure at the knowledge that they are 'in such close political sympathy ... it seems to me quite certain that his pen will be most helpful should war come', one page, 4to ; with 9 letters by Marsh to Sassoon, and two from the private secretary to the prime minister, Stanley Baldwin, 1936-1939, concerning Marsh and Sassoon's unsuccessful attempts to obtain a pension for the mother of Sassoon's fellow war poet Wilfred Owen. Sassoon left a memorable account of his interview with Churchill in his memoir Siegfried's Journey (1946). Churchill was warm and affable to Sassoon, in spite of the poet's pacifism. But he did subject him to a characteristic harangue in defence of war. Sassoon wondered if Churchill was entirely serious when he said war was the natural condition of man, pausing to add 'war and gardening'.