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LOT 10 CHURCHILL (WINSTON S.) Painting as a Pastime, FIRST EDITION,...

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CHURCHILL (WINSTON S.) Painting as a Pastime, FIRST EDITION, third impression, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED For Sister Bryant from Winston S. Churchill, May 1951 on the front free endpaper, Odhams, 1949; together with an autograph letter signed by Clementine Churchill to Sister Bryant, 2 Christmas cards (one signed by Clementine) using images of Winston's paintings, and a facsimile thankyou card addressed to the patients and nurses of St. George's Hospital (small group)CHURCHILL (WINSTON S.)Painting as a Pastime, FIRST EDITION, third impression, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED "For Sister Bryant from Winston S. Churchill, May 1951" on the front free endpaper, frontispiece, and 18 colour plates, contemporary red crushed morocco gilt by Bumpus, g.e., some fading to spine [Cohen A242.1.c; Woods A15], 8vo, Odhams, [1949]; together with an autograph letter signed by Clementine Churchill to Sister Bryant, 2 Christmas cards (one signed by Clementine) using images of Winston's paintings, and a facsimile thankyou card addressed to the patients and nurses of St. George's Hospital (small group)The recipient of this inscribed copy was Sister Anne Bryant, who had looked after Clementine Churchill's sister Nellie when she was a patient at St. George's Hospital, London. In the autograph letter (dated 11 May 1951) that accompanies the lot Clementine writes to Sister Bryant thanking her for 'all you have done for my sister, and for your kindness to me personally when I have been to see her. My husband sends you this little book which he hopes will amuse you. He has inscribed it for you'. Three years later, in 1954, Nellie was diagnosed with inoperable cancer, and was back at St. George's "having massive doses of ray treatment... Clementine had her driven down to Chartwell at the weekends and cherished her tenderly... [and] was constantly at either at Chequers or Chartwell whenever she was strong enough... [making] a brave appearance at Winston's [eightieth] birthday party in November..." (Mary Soames, Clementine Churchill, 1979).Provenance: Family of Sister Bryant; sold by her great niece at Bonhams, 19 October 2004, lot 20.

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