ALS signed “Winston S. Churchill,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, Blenheim Palace letterhead, April 21, 1905. Handwritten letter to Mr. Ellis, in part: “After some delay I send you herewith two battered proofs of the Home Rule chapters. Will you kindly return them to me at this address as soon as you have read them, as they have been checked & revised by Sir M. H. Beach & others & are in that sense originals. I hope you will understand what rough unpolished work this is & how enormously it must be improved before it can be submitted to the public. But you were good enough to express an interest in the subject & I venture to think there are some valuable letters & materials contained among the text. One page of no consequences is missing (62). The rest is I think fairly consecutive. I hope you are having a pleasant holiday.” A collector has added Churchill's name in pencil below the ink signature. In fine condition.
Having crossed the floor to the Liberal benches on May 31, 1904, Churchill had become one of the most ferocious critics of his former colleagues in the Conservative government. In some senses, his biography of his father, first published under the name Lord Randolph Churchill by Odhams Press in London in 1905, which presented him as a tory with increasingly radical sympathies, served as a justification by proxy for his own stance.
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