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    Nov 05, 2020 5 minutes

    125 Years Ago Autumn 1895 • Age 20 “Comfort and Convenience”

    Churchill wrote to his mother Jennie on 30 September commenting on current events in China, Armenia, and Africa. He closed the letter by telling her he was required to take his two-and-a-half month leave from 24 October to 8 January 1896. “Do try and arrange some common rendezvous for us.” Imagine then Jennie’s surprise four days later at receiving a letter from her son grandly advising her of his spur-of-the-moment decision to travel to Cuba to observe there the unfolding rebellion. To Jennie, the impulsive decision must have reminded her of the harum-scarum boy with which she had so frequently had to deal in the past ten years.

    Churchill’s first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean was not pleasant. In a shipboard letter to Jennie on

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