CHURCHILL Winston (1874-1965). L. S. with 2 autograph lines, Chartwell, Westerham (Kent), 14 October 1948, to General de Gaulle; 2 pages small in-4; in English. Writing his Memoirs, Churchill asks for details of the days of June 1940. He regretted not having been able to accept the General's invitation to stay at Colombey-les- deux-Églises. He had a copy of the first volume of his book [The Second World War] bound for the General; the second volume was almost finished, and Churchill needed to clarify a point about the conversation he had with de Gaulle and Jean Monnet in the Cabinet Room during the armistice crisis. Monnet worked to arrange the transfer of American arms contracts from French to British credit, and de Gaulle supported him. Churchill cannot remember the date of this conversation, probably the 15th or 16th, before de Gaulle left overnight for Bordeaux, or the 18th, or even the 19th, after his return. He asked the General to give him the exact date of his flight back to England with Louis Spears. He thought it was the morning of the 18th. On the other hand, de Gaulle made his famous radio appeal from London on the night of the 18th. So many things had happened during those turbulent days that there was a bit of confusion: "you yourself made your famous broadcast from London in the night of the 18th. So much was happening in those frantic days that there is confusion about the records"... In his own handwriting, Churchill added at the top of the letter: "Private. My dear de Gaulle", and to at the end, before signing, "yours sincerely". Attached is a telegram from Churchill to General de Gaulle, [22.XI.1948].