CHURCHILL, Winston S. (1874-1965). Typed letter signed ("Winston S. Churchill") to Willy Sax, London, 26 May 1955.

Two pages, 9 ½ x 7 ½ in. (24 x 18.9 cm.), with original transmittal envelope.

Churchill on painting. The former Prime Minister apologizes to Sax, a longtime friend and paint supplier, for not writing sooner, but is sure that he would "understand that the General Election has kept me a good deal busier than I had hoped." Churchill expresses his "gratitude to you for all the interest you have taken in my painting," and refuses to accept a check in payment for a work he had sent previously: "I have therefore committed your munificent cheque to the flames." He hoped to travel to the South of France in the autumn, "and to try a few more pictures. I only got two in Sicily, because the sunshine was so fleeting. I find tempera a very attractive medium for recording the impression both of the design and the colour, and after that I like to go on with oils."