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Winston Churchill [signed] 'Onwards to Victory'
Estimate:
$1,500 - $2,000
Sold
$1,100
Live Auction
191 The Collection of John Elliot Lawford | Part 1: Live Auction (Lot 1-94)
Category
Description
Winston Churchill [signed]
Onwards to Victory
War Speeches by the Right Hon..... Compiled by Charles Eade. Cassell and Co 1944. Lacking free endpaper, DJ chips.
The Half title is inscribed “To F.W. Doidge from Winston Churchill 1945”. Also loosely enclosed is a letter on Prime Ministerial letterhead To F.W. Doidge dated 1945, asking him to remember when he was at Chequers Mr Churchill had said he would gladly sign his latest book “I now have much pleasure in enclosing a copy, which he asks me to send to you with his best wishes” and signed C.R. Thompson [aide de camp to Winston Churchill].
Frederick Widdowson Doidge was appointed High Commissioner for New Zealand in the United Kingdom in 1953, the twin summits of his career in London were the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth and the Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference where he renewed his contacts with Prime Minister Winston Churchill and with Beaverbrook. He died in 1954.
Te Ara the Cyclopedia of NZ.
Provenance: Estate of John Lawford.
Onwards to Victory
War Speeches by the Right Hon..... Compiled by Charles Eade. Cassell and Co 1944. Lacking free endpaper, DJ chips.
The Half title is inscribed “To F.W. Doidge from Winston Churchill 1945”. Also loosely enclosed is a letter on Prime Ministerial letterhead To F.W. Doidge dated 1945, asking him to remember when he was at Chequers Mr Churchill had said he would gladly sign his latest book “I now have much pleasure in enclosing a copy, which he asks me to send to you with his best wishes” and signed C.R. Thompson [aide de camp to Winston Churchill].
Frederick Widdowson Doidge was appointed High Commissioner for New Zealand in the United Kingdom in 1953, the twin summits of his career in London were the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth and the Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference where he renewed his contacts with Prime Minister Winston Churchill and with Beaverbrook. He died in 1954.
Te Ara the Cyclopedia of NZ.
Provenance: Estate of John Lawford.
