Books and Manuscripts

No place, May 3, 1913. One sheet folded to make four pages, 8 x 5 in. (203 x 127 mm). Typed letter on Admiralty Office stationery, signed by Winston Churchill, as First Lord of the Admiralty, to an unnamed recipient, concerning the papers of Churchill's father, Lord Randolph Churchill (1849-95): "Dear Sir,/My father's papers, which were/entrusted to me by his literary executors,/have now passed out of my hands and are/deposited at Blenheim in the care of the Duke/of Marborough, to whom application for their/examination should be addressed. My/recollection of these papers, which I examined/carefully and thoroughly during the three/years I was engaged in writing my 'Life of/Lord Randolph Churchill', makes me confident/that you would not discover in them any/letters of any significance or value for your/purposes from Mr Isaac Butt, or any material/which would be of service to you in writing/his life./Yours faithfully,/Winston S. Churchill." Creasing from original fold; old tape residue on verso from old mount. In mat with a portrait of Churchill, and framed, 13 1/4 x 15 3/4 in. (336 x 400 mm).