Letter of Winston S. Churchill to Chancellor John P. Myers, 1951.

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Letter of Winston S. Churchill to Chancellor John P. Myers, 1951.

This is a signed, typed letter, dated June 28, 1951, expressing Churchill's regrets that he cannot deliver an address at the 85th convocation of the University of the State of New York, to be held October 1951.

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