Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt at War: Signed by Both at the Great Conferences of World War II
by Franklin D. Roosevelt|Winston Churchill
1/12/42. To find the signatures of Churchill and Roosevelt on one piece, obtained at the great war time Conferences, is an extraordinary rarity, this being our first everDuring World War I, the Ottoman Empire, presided over by Turkey, was allied with Germany. Winston Churchill sought to break the stalemate in the trenches in Europe by attacking Turkey, knocking it out of the war, and thus safeguarding the Suez Canal, protecting Britain’s interests in the Middle East, and bringing Greece... Read More
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The Unpublished Journals of Embedded World War I Medical Observer James Robb Church, With Photographs and Important Observations on the Use of Gas in Combat
by James Robb Church
1/1/16. ""Gas questions are crowding in and I can see that before long I shall live and inhabit in an atmosphere charged and tinctured with all the foul odors and deadly results that belong to that grisly arm of war. It is a big subject and stretches its devastating arm far and away thru many different spheres: Chemistry of course and primarily, and ordnance, and tactics and all the ramifications there are in the manufacture of prevention against this... Read More
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Winston Churchill Writes About His Articles for News of the World, Describing Major Episodes in His Life
by Winston Churchill
2/1/35. Age 60 no longer seems so old to him, says one article he discusses in this letterWinston Churchill’s main source of income was not his salary as a Member of Parliament, but as an author. He wrote 43 book length works in 72 volumes, and also wrote some 10,000 articles for newspapers and magazines over a period of decades on a broad variety of subjects. In many cases, these newspaper articles were for The News of the World,... Read More
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Prime Minister Winston Churchill's Original Letter of Thanks to a Triumphant English People, Who Had Withstood the Nazi Onslaught
by Winston Churchill
May-45. The original of a famous letter: “I have been deeply touched by all the messages of good will which have reached me at this time. Thank you so much…”https://vimeo.com/924546563?share=copy For six years, Churchill’s had been a voice in the wilderness, crying out against the mortal danger posed by Hitler’s Nazi Germany. However, Great Britain was lost in a pipe-dream of peace, and Churchill was ignored and even scorned. Then the first wave of German military might overwhelmed Poland in... Read More
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Winston Churchill Takes Charge of the War Effort: Two Remarkable Pieces from Just Days Into His First Prime Ministership, Precious Mementos of World War II and the Evacuation at Dunkirk
by Winston Churchill
1940. A note from the War Cabinet, May 20, 1940, pre-Dunkirk, written in his presence, trying to respond to the Nazi blitzkrieg in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands Both salvaged and retained for posterity by his private secretary John Colville, and affixed in a form of journal entry, with Colville's handwritten annotations as provenance Truly unique, we have never seen anything like this on the market beforeThe Battle of FranceOn May 10, 1940, the Phony War came to a stunning end... Read More
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Winston Churchill Correctly Predicts That the Job of Setting the Permanent Irish Boundary Will Result in Disturbances or Instability
by Winston Churchill
8/8/24. Churchill was a Liberal member of Parliament and became Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1921. He was a signatory of the epochal Anglo-Irish Treaty of that year, which established the Irish Free State [known as the Republic of Ireland] in Southern Ireland. Churchill was involved in the lengthy negotiations of the treaty. The Irish Civil War broke out after the signing of the Treaty, with the Irish Republican Army dead set against leaving Northern Ireland in... Read More
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With World War II Just Months Away, Winston Churchill Begins to Prepare the British People for the Coming Storm of “Air Raids and the Population”
by Winston Churchill
22/04/1939. In the article, he predicts that Britain could not be beaten by a bombing campaign, a prediction that he helped prove true Soon, as Prime Minister, he would have to lead the nation through the Blitz of German air raids and on to victoryIn 1914, the Germans launched bombing raids on Britain from the sea and sky. Suddenly civilians on the Home Front, as well as soldiers on the Front Line, were at risk. The German military believed that... Read More
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The POW Love Letter of Winston Churchill, Written from Prison in South Africa During the Boer War to His First Love, Pamela Plowden: ""I think often of you. Yours, always, Winston S. Churchill""
by Winston Churchill
18/11/1899. In battle and imprisonment, she is on his mind: ""I write you this line to tell you that among new and vivid scenes I think often of you. Yours, always, Winston S. Churchill."" We could find only three letters as a POW having come to marketIn 1880, Britain annexed the Transvaal in Southern Africa, a land populated mainly by descendants of Dutch immigrants known as Boers. This led to the First Boer War, a war that, to the shock... Read More
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Amidst the Swirl of Important War Events in February 1941, Winston Churchill Finds Time to Honor the Man Whose Financial Support Got Him Through the Wilderness Years
by Winston Churchill
26/02/1941. “It seems to me that very probably you will want the celebration to be public, and in that case I think the best thing I could do is not to take the chair, but to come if I possibly can as a guest.”February 1941 was packed with momentous events. The Italian attack on Greece was spreading to include the Germans and British. Hitler sought to press Yugoslavia to join the Axis. On February 9, in a famous speech... Read More
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With the Battle of Britain Imminent, Winston Churchill Strongly Opposes Evacuating the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret to Canada
by Winston Churchill
Jun-40. A remarkable set of 2 manuscripts bearing the handwriting of both Churchill and his predecessor Neville Chamberlain Two memos from June 1940 retained for posterity by Churchill’s private secretary John Colville, affixed by him in a form of journal entry, with Colville’s handwritten explanationsOn evacuation:Evacuation of children in Britain from the cities to the countryside started in September 1939, in the wake of seeing the German bombing of Poland. In the spring and summer of 1940, with the threat... Read More
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The Great Quotation of Winston Churchill, Signed: ""Let us brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves that if the British Commonwealth and Empire last for a thousand years, men will say: This was their finest hour.""
by Winston Churchill
20/07/1942. We are not aware of any other signed quotation of ‘Finest Hour’ in private hands, making this extremely rare if not unique ""The 'finest hour' quotation document has special meaning not only to the British people, but also to all the rest of the free world ... [it] serves as a reminder that freedom is not free without the blood, sweat and tears of its citizenry,"" writes presidential descendant Massee McKinleyWinston Churchill took over as prime minister on May... Read More
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Prime Minister Winston Churchill, October 1940, the Battle of Britain and the Spitfire, Which Made That Victory Possible
by Winston Churchill
25/10/1940. Along with a small archive of correspondence on the same subject from prominent English and South African figures, including Jan and Issie Smuts This is our first ever letter of Churchill from 1940 concerning the RAF or the Spitfire; the donor had given 20,000 pounds total to the air and naval forcesAfter Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Britain found itself at war, a war for which she was ill-prepared. After a period of relative quiet, in... Read More
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A Ticket to Hear Winston Churchill’s Address to a Joint Session of Congress on the Progress of the War Against Germany and Japan
by Winston Churchill
19/05/1943. Taken from the personal scrapbook of Congressman A. Leonard Allen, who was there The first ticket to this epochal event we have seen, it is now being offered for sale for the first timeIn May 1943, Winston Churchill was in Washington for the Trident Conference, a strategic meeting of the Americans and British during which they discussed the invasion of Sicily, extent of military force, the date for invading Normandy (which would prove to be June 6, 1944, forever... Read More
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Just Weeks Before the Outbreak of World War II, Winston Churchill Announces He is Leaving for France to Inspect the Maginot Line
by Winston Churchill
13/08/1939. To ready for the oncoming war, he wants the British Secretary of State to use compulsory powers, such as mobilization measures and war-related administrative powers This letter shows Churchill prescience and foresight as a lone voice in the wilderness years, noting the importance of the Maginot and arguing for emergency government powers “I am off to-morrow for a tour of the Rhine Sector of the Maginot Line, and I shall be in France until about the 24th…I do not want... Read More
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Prime Minister Winston Churchill Meets With Leaders of the Provisional Czechoslovak Government, Forced Into Exile By Hitler, and Decides to Give Them Full Diplomatic Recognition
by Winston Churchill
19/04/1941. A symbol of the growing alliance against the NazisThe Munich Conference of 1938 led to the surrender of part of Czechoslovakia called the Sudetenland in the name of appeasement. Many in Britain were jubilant at the thought of having avoided war, but Winston Churchill felt the Czechs had been betrayed and told Parliament that the British people “should know that there has been gross neglect and deficiency in our defenses; they should know that we have sustained a... Read More
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The Original, Official War Office Order Notifying British Commanders and Troops Worldwide that Italy Has Declared War on the Allied Powers
by Winston Churchill
10/6/40. In America, President Roosevelt broadcast on the radio the promise of support for Britain and France with “the material resources of this nation.”In 1935 Hitler violated the Treaty of Versailles by introducing military conscription and building an air force. The following year German troops occupied the Rhineland, also a treaty violation. in 1938, Germany invaded Austria and incorporated it into the Reich. The German military was then mobilized, and was emboldened by the lack of opposition in France... Read More
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Senator Henry Clay Does Business With the Bank of the United States, and Discusses Litigation Involving It
by Henry Clay
23/06/1823. Clay would unsuccessfully strive against Andrew Jackson in Clay's effort to recharter the BankHenry Clay was a major supporter of the Second Bank of United States and had a strong professional relationship with bank officials Langdon Cheves and Nicholas Biddle before Clay resigned from the bank on March 8, 1825. He remained a friend of the Bank and was a leading force in the attempt to recharter it in 1832.Autograph letter signed, Lexington, KY, June 23, 1823, to... Read More
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Henry Clay Writes Pres. Taylor Hoping He “may be able to preserve to our country the blessings of peace.""
by Henry Clay
06/06/1849. The annexation of Texas in 1845 caused the controversy over slavery to heat up, but the Mexican War intervened to deflect attention. When the war ended in early 1848, vast lands in the West were acquired from Mexico, and the question of whether slavery would be allowed in these territories quickly reignited the flames of sectionalism. In 1849, the discovery of gold led to a land rush in California, and the territory filled quickly with people. With partisans... Read More
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Henry Clay - the Moving Force Behind the Compromise of 1850 - Wants the Fugitive Slave Act to Be Maintained and Upheld
by Henry Clay
22/11/1850. On the South’s fear of emancipation and the need to have the South’s cooperation in revising legislation: “That feeling was wearing away, but it is aroused again by what has recently passed and is passing in regard to Slavery. It is only in a period of calm, when the passions are stilted, that an appeal can be favorably made to the South. Without its co-operation to some extent, it would be inexpedient to rely altogether on Northern support.” You... Read More
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Kentucky on the Brink of the Civil War: An Album Consisting of That Entire Border State's Delegation During the Era of the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act
by Henry Clay
01/01/1851. The 32nd and 33rd Congresses served from 1851-1855. The 32nd Congress met after the Compromise of 1850 and the 33rd passed the Kansas–Nebraska Act, an act that soon led to the creation of the Republican Party. This was a consequential Congress and border states like Kentucky were on the edge of a precipice they could vaguely see looming ahead. Kentucky’s delegation was composed of prominent politicians in a state that boasted the citizenry of Henry Clay. Among the... Read More
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Grover Cleveland, Just Eight Days Before His Re-election in 1892, Plots His Final Week Before His Eventual Victory
by Grover Cleveland
31/10/1892. With only 8 days to go before the 1892 presidential election Cleveland was the consummate politician. He had lost his previous re-election bid in 1888 to Benjamin Harrison but came back to win in 1892, becoming the first president to serve two separate terms. ""As Cleveland’s 2nd great-grandson, this letter exemplifies his tenacity. That trait has been passed down through the generations,"" writes presidential descendant Massee McKinleyAutograph letter signed, two pages, New York, October 31, 1892, just eight days... Read More
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President Cleveland Declares Thanksgiving
by Grover Cleveland
02/11/1885. It is fitting and proper that a nation thus favored should on one day in every year...publicly acknowledge the goodness of God and return thanks to Him for all His gracious gifts.The holiday we know today as Thanksgiving was conceived by Sarah Josepha Hale, editor of the prominent magazine Godey’s Lady’s Book, who engaged in a campaign over years to get Thanksgiving accepted as a national holiday in the United States. She recommended this to Abraham Lincoln in... Read More
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President Grover Cleveland Promotes Art Collecting in His Last Days in Office
by Grover Cleveland
20/02/1897. In late February 1897 Cleveland was preparing to leave the presidency for the final time, and on February 20 had but 12 days of his two terms left to serve.Edward Bacon was a Buffalo, New York, attorney who formed a friendship with Grover Cleveland before either rose to fame and fortune. Cleveland became governor of New York and then President of the United States, while Bacon went on to become a railroad tycoon who partnered in American business... Read More
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President Grover Cleveland Will Discuss Conditions at the Carlisle and Hampton Indians Schools
by Grover Cleveland
21/07/1888. In 1887, Rev. T.S. Childs was appointed to investigate complaints made against the Hampton Institute Indian Department related to the health and discipline of students at the Carlisle and Hampton Indians Schools. Early in 1888 he submitted a report on the health of students, the food and diet, the climate, education, and other factors at both institutions. He wanted to discuss his findings with the President.Cleveland agreed to meet with him. Autograph Letter Signed as President, Executive Mansion... Read More
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President Bill Clinton Sends Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah a Book
by Bill Clinton
19/04/1997. An uncommon letter entirely in the hand of then President Bill Clinton to long time Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, sending a book. Autograph letter signed, on his Presidential Card, ""The President,"" April 19, 1997. ""Dear Orrin - Here's the book I told you about. Good thing I stopped the research on this!"" Signed ""Bill.""
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