[Rarebooks] FS: Letter from Churchill's Secretary about the story of Churchill singing "Rule, Britannia" on the cruiser Enterprise

[Charles Agvent]

[CHURCHILL, Winston] MARTIN, John Miller. TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS) with 
a TYPED MANUSCRIPT. London, 4 September 1944. A SIGNED letter on the 
Prime Minister's stationery from John Miller Martin, principal private 
secretary (1940-1945) to Winston Churchill, to Richard Tobin of the NEW 
YORK HERALD TRIBUNE giving details about the story of Churchill singing 
"Rule, Britannia" on the cruiser Enterprise in July 1944 when he went to 
visit the shores of Normandy a little over a month after the D-Day 
invasion. With a manuscript of the lyrics and the original envelope 
stamped "First Lord of the Treasury." Creases from folding. Near Fine.

"On the first night when I visited the wardroom the officers were 
singing songs. At the end they sang the chorus of "Rule, Britannia." I 
asked them what were the words. Nobody knew them. So I recited some of 
Thomson's noble lines myself" (CHURCHILL, Winston: THE SECOND WORLD WAR, 
Volume VI: TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY, page 26). (#019637)        $450

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