CHURCHILL THANKS THE AMERICAN AMBASSADOR TO GREAT BRITAIN FOR HIS “ADDRESS ON ‘THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES’”

WINSTON CHURCHILL (1874-1965). Churchill was the British Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945, and again from 1951 to 1955. He was awarded the 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.

ALS. 1pg. 5” x 8”. July 24 [circa 1903-1904]. 105 Mount Street, West. An autograph letter signed “Winston S Churchill” addressed to Joseph Choate, the American Ambassador to Great Britain: “I have to thank you for the copy of your address on ‘The Supreme Court of the United States’ with which I have been forwarded, & which I have read with much interest.” In May 1903, Choate delivered before the Political and Social Education League a lecture entitled The Supreme Court of the United States, Its Place in the Constitution. The letter has a small speck to the right of the signature and three mounting remnants on the verso, and is in fine condition.