To add to what Antoine Capet has just posted re
Marlborough, I can add that (at the risk of
referring to my own work), throughout my
Bibliography of the Writings of Sir Winston
Churchill, there are specific and detailed
references to Churchill's contracts with
publishers, whether for his books or articles,
which include the quantum of his advances and
often the additional sums earned as royalties
(although in many instances, as in the case of
Scribner's American editions of Churchill's
volume works, the sales never earned out the advances).
Needless to say, the amounts were immense, even
from the time of his biography of Lord Randolph,
for which he was paid £8000 in January 1906. Of
that amount, Charlie Longman, Churchill's
original publisher, commented to Frederick
Macmillan, the publisher of LRC, that he thought
the advance was excessive (it proved to be
exactly that), and Macmillan wrote to WSC that "I
am afraid he thinks we are going to pay too much
for it; I hope that he may be wrong." He was of course right.
In any case, there is considerable additional
information of this nature throughout the
Bibliography in both Sections A and C.
Ron Cohen
At 08:13 PM 04/02/2012, you wrote:
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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