(Untitled), 21 Dec 1900

Item

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/26/77-79

Scope and Contents

Letter from WSC (Hotel Touraine, Boston [United States]) to [Lady Randolph Churchill] about his lecture tour including: difficulties posed by lack of interest and pro-Boer feeling; details of his financial gain from each lecture; the success of the New York meeting which was presided over by Mark Twain; the hospitality of [William] Bourke Cockran; a meeting with the President [William McKinley]; his ill-health at the Washington meeting; his dislike of the "vulgar and offensive" advertisements for the tour; and comments on the "black and unsettled" political situation in South Africa. Typescript with manuscript corrections. Last page of letter on the notepaper of 105 Mount Street in manuscript.

Dates

Creation: 21 Dec 1900

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