Office of the Historian

Hopkins Papers: Telegram

The President’s Special Assistant (Hopkins) to Prime Minister Churchill

secret
[Washington,] August 28, 1944.

51. Personal and secret to the Prime Minister from Harry L. Hopkins.

Dear Winston: I am feeling ever so much better but am still taking things pretty easy and I am inclined to think that I will not risk the dangers of a setback by fighting the Battle of Quebec. Better men than I have been killed there.1

Harry
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  1. For Churchill’s interpretation of Hopkins’ absence from the Second Quebec Conference, see Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy, pp. 149, 161. Cf. Sherwood, p. 814.↩
  2. The source text also has the holograph signature “Harry L Hopkins”, but only the given name “Harry” was to be transmitted at the end of the message.↩