ALS signed “Winston S. Churchill,” one page, 5 x 5.75, no date but circa February-March 1920. Letter, likely to British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, concerning a letter from Russian revolutionary Boris Savinkov, in full: "The situation in S. Russia has now become so critical that I do not see what useful action can be taken upon Savinkoff's letter at the present time. Perhaps you will explain this to him & give him very good wishes." In fine condition, with a faint block of toning from prior display, and the top of the letter inexplicably trimmed off. Savinkov was an acquaintance of Sidney Reilly, the legendary renegade British agent, and was involved in a number of counter-revolutionary plots against the Bolsheviks, sometimes collaborating with the British Secret Intelligence Service. He was lured back to the USSR in 1924, and was consequently arrested; he died in prison the following year.
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