(Untitled), 13 Mar 1901

Item

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/26/96-97

Scope and Contents

Letter from WSC (105 Mount Street [London]) to "Mamma" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he discusses the success of his speech [concerning the dismissal of Major General Sir Henry Colville] which "turned votes and shifted opinion" and encloses a note [see CHAR 28/26/101] from [John Brodrick]. He asks her to help him appoint a secretary to avoid him being "pressed into his grave with all sorts of ridiculous things" and asks her for a list of the names [of those who helped him escape from the Boers] who are to be given watches. Unsigned typescript.

Dates

Creation: 13 Mar 1901

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