Of course, Piers Brendon is currently working on a book about Churchill and animals, which may touch on this.
From: churchillchat@googlegroups.com [mailto:churchillchat@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Richard M. Langworth Sent: 01 July 2015 20:55 To: churchillchat@googlegroups.com; dpreey...@gmail.com Subject: [ChurchillChat] Re: Churchill's farming activities David: Martin Gilbert Winston S. Churchill, Vols. 5 and 8, and Mary Soames's A Daughter's Tale are laced with references. Since you are in Westerham you should dig up a copy of Percy Reid's Churchill: Townsman of Westerham, which also covers farming episodes. Reid was a stringer for London newspapers who kept an eye on things at Chartwell. Scarce but maybe available on bookfinder.com. Three specific articles: On Alice Bateman and Donkey Jack: http://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/churchills-character-the-common-touch See also "Guarding Greatness," by 1946-47 bodyguard Ronald Golding: Finest Hour 143: https://www.winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest-hour-143/glimpses-guarding-greatness-part-i Finest Hour 144: https://www.winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest-hour-144/guarding-greatness WSC to Lloyd George: "I am going to make my farm pay, whatever it costs," Churchill in His Own Words, 517. http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0091933366/?tag=richmlang-20 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to churchillchat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:churchillchat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To post to this group, send email to churchillchat@googlegroups.com<mailto:churchillchat@googlegroups.com>. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to churchillchat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to churchillchat@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
