Owner Pom Harrington presents a splendid group of first edition books and documents charting Churchill’s growing regard for Dr. David Roberts. A relationship borne of necessity and expediency, shading to friendship and becoming a real intimacy; the reality of which is utterly confirmed by the warmth and sincerity of Clementine’s heartfelt notes of thanks. The Churchill’s clearly thought very highly of Dr. Roberts, but it is a relationship which left few traces, because as Gilbert pointedly remarks, “Unlike Lord Moran, kept no diary.”
This set inscribed identically in vols. I and II: “To Dr. Roberts from Winston S. Churchill, Christmas 1956″; vol. III with a printed facsimile holograph compliments slip, “With all good wishes Winston S. Churchill”; vol. IV inscribed “To David Myrddin Roberts from Winston S. Churchill, March 1958.” Accompanied by three Christmas cards, from Winston and Clementine, with paintings by Churchill, one of them signed by Clemmie; a short typed letter, dated 5 December 1957, on 28 Hyde Park Gate stationery signed by Churchill; a two-page hand-written note signed by Clementine, dated 2 April 1958, addressed to Mrs. Riley, Roberts’s mother-in-law, together with the original envelope; and two telegrams, one from Clementine in 1962, and one from Winston in 1964.
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