CHURCHILL, Winston S. (1874-1965). Autograph letter signed to his close friend Lady Violet Bonham Carter, London, 24 May 1928.

Four pages, 136 x 202mm., on Chancellor of the Exchequer stationary (typical mailing folds). Sold with transmittal envelope.

A lengthy letter sent to the daughter of H.H. Asquith, the Prime Minister whom Churchill served as First Lord of the Admiralty during World War I, regarding negative comments published after Asquith's death. Churchill writes: "I find it difficult to believe that y[ou]r Fathered have wished publically to apply to me the offensive and abusive terms w[hic]h appears in the Daily Telegraph of this morning. Still less can I believe that he w[oul]d have wished such a passage from his private correspondence to appear within a few weeks of his death, when opponents and friends alike have united in tributes of respect and of sympathy... I hope that the biographers of the future who write y[ou]r Father's Life will begin by explaining that these so-called Memoirs give a wholly inadequate impression of his contribution to public life: that they were pieced together from private letters and fragmentary memoranda... and were published after his death in precipitate haste and for reasons far removed from a just case for his reputation."