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Autograph Letter Signed, to Cyril Lakin, declining to review Churchill’s new book [probably Step by Step] on account of being Churchill’s Private Secretary. 4 pp. 7 x 4 inches, fine. Gray’s Inn, 15 June 1939. Sir Edward Marsh (1872-1953), Private Secretary to Sir Winston Churchill. “An even better reason is that I couldn’t possibly discuss this book (wh I’ve read in proof) without saying how disastrous I think it that the insight & foresight wh appears on every page shd not be employed in a Government post …”