In 1929 letter, Churchill ponders ‘pleasing and profitable’ pursuits outside politics

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A 1929 letter in which Winston Churchill refers to Britain’s House of Commons as his “theater” but contemplates quitting politics will go up for auction in London next week. In the type-written letter to his friend Sir Frederick Ponsonby, the future war-time prime minister wrote about pursuing “more pleasing and profitable” occupations than being a […]

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