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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Typed letter signed ("Winston S. Churchill"), to Edward H. Dodd, Jr., Chartwell, Kent, 19 May 1956. 1 page, 4to, Chartwell stationery, punch hole at top lefty, otherwise fine.
CHURCHILL SOMEWHAT DISMISSIVELY MENTIONS HIS CORRESPONDENCE WITH F.D.R. in this letter to the head Dodd Mead publishing company. Dodd evidently wrote to inquire about publishing the Churchill-FDR correspondence. "I imagine that the bulk of the letters," Churchill writes in response, "certainly the most important, exchanged by Roosevelt and me have already been published in biographical works. I should not think myself that there was a very big bulk of correspondence unpublished." At the time, the principal "biographical works" would have been Churchill's own Second World war memoir, or Robert Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins. But there was a considerable bulk of unpublished letters. The first publisher to tackle them was Dutton, with its collection of what it called the "Secret Correspondence," in 1975. Not until Warren Kimball's 1984 three-volume edition by Princeton University Press did all the letters appear.
CHURCHILL SOMEWHAT DISMISSIVELY MENTIONS HIS CORRESPONDENCE WITH F.D.R. in this letter to the head Dodd Mead publishing company. Dodd evidently wrote to inquire about publishing the Churchill-FDR correspondence. "I imagine that the bulk of the letters," Churchill writes in response, "certainly the most important, exchanged by Roosevelt and me have already been published in biographical works. I should not think myself that there was a very big bulk of correspondence unpublished." At the time, the principal "biographical works" would have been Churchill's own Second World war memoir, or Robert Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins. But there was a considerable bulk of unpublished letters. The first publisher to tackle them was Dutton, with its collection of what it called the "Secret Correspondence," in 1975. Not until Warren Kimball's 1984 three-volume edition by Princeton University Press did all the letters appear.