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CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Typed letter signed to the French writer Pierre Jean Jouve.
Publisher: Downing Street, London, 22 February, 1945
Stock code: 36353
Price: £2,250 Currency Conversion
Churchill writes to thank Jouve for a copy of his laudatory publication, "Processionnal de la Force Anglaise". Jouve is widely recognised as one of France's greatest C20th poets, best known for his anti-war poetry inspired by his time as a volunteer hospital orderly in Switzerland during the Great War. In 1924 he converted to Catholicism and broke with his pacifist connections to the extent of divorcing his wife. His subsequent writings became suffused with mysticism and psychoanalysis, the latter through the influence of his second wife, who was his English translator David Gascoyne's analyst. The letter is accompanied by a copy of Jouve's pamphlet, a work in which he translates the current conflict to the spiritual dimension where Churchill is one of the most active agents for good, "this Shakespearean clown, this embodiment of war. Winston Churchill, his name will survive in splendour."
1 page, Downing Street letterhead. With the original envelope addressed to Jouve at the British Council offices in Hanover Square. Folded for mailing but fine.
