A Handsomely Framed 15 August 1912 Typed Hand Emended And Signed Letter From Then First Lord Of The

by Winston S Churchill

$6,500 · Offered by Churchill Book Collector

Signed

Admiralty House, London: 1912. Letter. This handsomely framed item features a typed, hand-emended, and signed 15 August 1912 letter from then-First Lord of the Admiralty Winston S. Churchill on his Admiralty stationery to his newly-appointed Naval Advisor to the Turkish Navy, British Rear-Admiral Arthur Limpus. The letter encapsulates Churchill’s expectations and ambitions regarding the Ottoman Empire, which would nearly cost Churchill both his political and corporeal lives

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