LONDON, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- A collection of 40 love letters written by Winston Churchill to his first sweetheart fetched $500,000 at a Christies auction in London.
One note to Pamela Plowden became the most expensive Churchill letter ever auctioned when it was bought Tuesday by an anonymous private collector for $134,000. In it, Churchill told her: "Then I met you ... were I a dreamer of dreams, I would say, 'Marry me -- and I will conquer the world and lay it at your feet.'"
Churchill wrote constantly to Plowden, the daughter of the governor of Bengal and acting viceroy of India, whom he met in 1896 when he was a young Army officer.
Although the relationship did not last, they remained friendly long after their respective marriages, the London Telegraph said.
One moving message of condolence after the death of Plowden's second son in action during the World War II fetched $107,000.
