CHURCHILL, Winston S. (1874-1965). Document signed ("Winston S. Churchill") Pretoria, 9 June 1900.

One page on Transvaal Hotel stationery, 10³⁄₄ x 8³⁄₈ in. (27.3 x 21.2 cm.), mounted to an album page.

A correspondents banquet in the wake of the fall of Pretoria. Churchill adds his signature to a list of international correspondents who planned to attend a dinner at the Transvaal Hotel on 9 June, four days following the fall of Pretoria to British forces on 5 June. Churchill, a correspondent for the Morning Star, adds his signature to the bottom of the first column. Mounted to the verso of the same album page is a letter from S. L. H. Slocum, an American observer attached to the U.S. Legation at Lisbon: an autograph letter signed, Pretoria, 13 June in which he declines the invitation for the lunch "as we are all going out this morning with Lord Roberts to view the battle from afar." The action in question was the Battle of Diamond Hill (11-12 June 1900). They would have been disappointed on the 13th as Botha's army began its retreat to the north following two days of battle.

[With:] Three photographs of Churchill including a striking image of him standing before one of the derailed train carriages near the site of his capture during the South African War of 1899-1902; GRAHAM, Alexander J.P. The Capture and Escape of Winston Churchill during the South African War. Salisbury, Rhodesia: Edinburgh Press, [1965]. Signed by the author on the front cover; More Push and Enterprise. – Facsimile of the Official List of War Correspondents Issued at Headquarters in South Africa for use by the Army officials…[London:] Scott, Herbert & Co. Printers, [no year]. An advertising circular issued by the Warwick Trading Co. Ltd.