CHAMBERLAIN NEVILLE: (1869-1940) British Prime Minister 1937-40. War date T.L.S., Neville Chamberlain, one page, 4to, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, 15th November 1939, to Lord Kemsley (‘My dear Gomer’), on the printed stationery of the Prime Minister. Chamberlain states, in full, 'Many thanks for your letter and for sending me a copy of Beverley Baxter's article. I did see the original article in the “Sunday Pictorial” and, although one becomes hardened to these things, it was impossible not to resent its insinuations. I do very much appreciate therefore the trouble which you took to reply to it in so many of your papers and I am most grateful to you for your friendliness in giving me this support and to Baxter for his labours. I am already very much better and hope that I shall soon have completely repelled the attack.', continuing with several lines of holograph text (in relation to his gout), 'It is now definitely wearing off and I hope to get my shoe on tomorrow or Friday at latest. Luckily I am very well in every other respect.' Some very light, minor creasing, otherwise VG
James Gomer Berry (1883-1968) 1st Viscount Kemsley. Welsh Colliery owner and Newspaper Publisher.
Arthur Beverley Baxter (1891-1964) Canadian Journalist and Politician. Baxter spent most of his career in the United Kingdom working for the Daily Express and London Evening Standard, and was a Member of Parliament for the Conservative Party from 1935.