World War II-dated TLS in French, signed “C. de Gaulle,” one page, 8 x 10, personal 'Le General de Gaulle' letterhead, December 12, 1941. Addressed from Whitehall, London, a letter to noted educator and philosopher Sir W. D. Ross of Oriel College, in full (translated): “I thank you for your kind letter and for the invitation you kindly extend to me to come and dine with you at the Athenaeum next Thursday, December 18. I regret that it is unfortunately not possible for me to go there due to a previous commitment, but I hope to soon have the opportunity to see you again, as well as Lady Ross and your daughters.” De Gaulle has added the salutation and valediction in his own hand. In fine condition.
Sir William David Ross (1877-1971), known as David Ross but usually cited as W. D. Ross, was a Scottish Aristotelian philosopher, translator, WWI veteran, civil servant, and university administrator. His best-known work is The Right and the Good (1930), in which he developed a pluralist, deontological form of intuitionist ethics in response to G. E. Moore's consequentialist form of intuitionism. Ross also critically edited and translated a number of Aristotle's works, such as his 12-volume translation of Aristotle together with John Alexander Smith, and wrote on other Greek philosophy.
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