As some of you know, I am currently translating _Speaking for Themselves_ into French for Éditions Tallandier. It so happens that
only yesterday I was translating WSC's "All vy Secret" long letter to CSC of 19 September 1929 from Santa Barbara (pp. 344 ff.) In
it he gives a list of expected payments from publishers and others. The total is £21,825 - and he adds "But apart from this there
is money enough to make us comfortable & well-mounted in London this autumn..."
He also indicates that the guaranteed minimum payment for _Marlborough_ is £20,000. A considerable sum at the time. Conversion
into 2012 pounds is always unsatisfactory (e.g. the cost of property in or near London or the cost of employing "a household" [of
servants] bears no proportion in real terms to what it was before 1939).
Far better to compare with what he wrote in his letter of 2 September 1923 (p. 273) : "It [Chartwell] will have cost us
£20,000..." (i.e. including complete refurbishment and new wings, etc.)
Inflation cannot have been enormous between September 1923 and September 1929 (after that is another story), and we can therefore
assume that _Marlborough_ alone paid for Chartwell Manor.
As for the money from _ The Second World War_, all the details are in Professor Reynolds' superb _In Command of History_ -
required reading for anybody with the slightest interest in Churchill.
With best wishes to all,
Professor Antoine CAPET, FRHistS
Head of British Studies
University of Rouen
76821 Mont-Saint-Aignan
France
[email protected]
'Britain since 1914' Section Editor
Royal Historical Society Bibliography
Reviews Editor of CERCLES
http://www.cercles.com/review/reviews.html
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From: David Turrell
Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2012 5:32 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ChurchillChat] Books and Financial Freedom
Although WSC lived most of his life by his pen, the work that finally made him truly rich (although he had always lived as if
rich), was his six volume history of the Second World War. How much money did he give his son? Over the course of many years I
would imagine it was substantial. But your question seems to allude to a particular occasion. What is it that you have in mind,
specifically when you intimate that the amount was ‘quite large’?
Dave
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Tom Dennis
Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2012 8:13 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [ChurchillChat] Books and Financial Freedom
I was wondering if someone could tell me what book Churchill wrote which
set him free financially. And the other question is how much money did WSC
give his son Randolph. This amount was quite large.
Thanks,
Tom
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