I do not know what I can do to help. An early Second World War typed letter signed

by Winston S. Churchill

$5,500 · Offered by Churchill Book Collector

Whitehall, London: 1939. Letter. This is an intriguing, early Second World War letter from then-First Lord of the Admiralty Winston S. Churchill to his one-time ghostwriter, A. Marshall Diston. The typed letter dated “7th October 1939” on blind embossed Admiralty stationery features Churchill’s autograph salutation, valediction, and signature. The text reads: “I am very sorry indeed to hear your news, | the more so as I do not know what I can do to help. |

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