CHURCHILL, Winston S. Autograph letter signed to Victor, 2nd Earl of Lytton, 105 Mount Street, 1 February 1902, CONGRATULATING HIM ON HIS ENGAGEMENT TO PAMELA PLOWDEN, 'From my heart I wish you both all the happiness & good fortune which wit & beauty deserve when they combine to share the inheritance of the future. I hope you will both always count me among your most devoted friends', one page, 8vo. Provenance: by descent from Victor, Earl of Lytton; Christie's, 2 December 2003, lot 57.
Churchill had himself proposed to Pamela at some stage in 1900, and they may even have been informally engaged for a period, though by the end of the same year it had become apparent that they would not marry.
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Autograph letter signed to Victor, 2nd Earl of Lytton, 105 Mount Street, 1 February 1902, CONGRATULATING HIM ON HIS ENGAGEMENT TO PAMELA PLOWDEN, 'From my heart I wish you both all the happiness & good fortune which wit & beauty deserve when they combine to share the inheritance of the future. I hope you will both always count me among your most devoted friends', one page, 8vo. Provenance: by descent from Victor, Earl of Lytton; Christie's, 2 December 2003, lot 57.
Churchill had himself proposed to Pamela at some stage in 1900, and they may even have been informally engaged for a period, though by the end of the same year it had become apparent that they would not marry.
