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    OLDEN LIFE

    May 31, 2023 2 minutes

    WHAT WAS a thank-you letter?

    The earliest surviving letter from Winston Churchill was a handwritten note to his mother.

    In 1882, aged seven, he wrote to thank her for his gifts of ‘soldiers, flag and castle’.

    The painstaking italic penmanship of the very young Churchill later gave way to the easy,

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