FRAMED TYPED LETTER SIGNED to “Mrs. P.” by Winston Churchill

Description

A very personal letter, dated March 23rd, 1936, on Chartwell letterhead, in which Winston Churchill anxiously offers to pay for his resident personal secretary, Mrs. Violet Pearman’s medical expenses resulting from an accident.

Dear Mrs. Pearman, You must certainly stay in bed until you are fit to be ex-rayed, and then follow the Doctor’s orders,” Churchill writes. “Let me know when you are able to do any typing… But get well as soon as you can, and do not worry about anything. If you are not insured I will pay for any necessary scientific treatment that is required, and your salary of course will continue during this illness. I am so sorry you have had this accident.”

The letter is signed, as Churchill only signed for intimates, with his initials: “Yours sincerely, WC.”

The single-page letter measure 8 x 10 inches and is in very good condition, with light foxing and some fold creasing, else fine. It is here matted in linen and resplendently framed with the only known image of Churchill and Mrs. P. together, taken in Rhodes, Greece in 1934 by the Churchills’ frequent traveling companion Lady Evelyn Moyne.

At the onset of his “Wilderness Years,” in 1930, Winston Churchill hired Mrs. VIOLET CONSTANCE EVELYN PEARMAN (née Williams) as his first resident secretary, based by his side at Chartwell almost exclusively. “Mrs. P.” quickly became indispensable to Churchill, sharing these tumultuous years as intimately as anyone; taking down just about every word of Churchill’s letters, articles and book-length literary endeavors by hand herself.

A very rare window into Churchill’s private working world during his darkest, yet most productive, period.