[Alfred Waterhouse, RA, Victorian Gothic Revival architect who designed Manchester Town Hall and the Natural History Museum, London.] Autograph Letter Signed to his son's headmaster Rev. H. W. Sneyd-Kynnersley, regarding the boy's deficiencies.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. Sneyd-Kinnersley is the headmaster who is alleged to have subjected a naked seven-year-old Winston Churchill to repeated beatings. 3pp, 12mo. With mourning border. Letterhead (no doubt designed by Waterhouse himself) in characteristic style. On grey paper. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded once for postage. Good expansive signature ‘A Waterhouse’, and the letter written in a stylish hand. Addressed to ‘The Rev: H. W Sneyd Kinnersley’. He begins by stating that he ‘called at Aldin House this afternoon in the hope of seeing you’. Had he done so, he would have ‘troubled you with a question about my little boy’s work. / I fancy that having risen in his place in the School he has missed somehow some of the Steps which he might have taken on his way to his present position.’ He asks SK to ‘point out to me in what you Consider him most deficient’, so that he can ‘get him to do a little work during the holidays to make him acquainted with what he has missed.’