Every day Sophie Dupre presents two items from her large stock of signed photographs, autograph letters, autographs for sale, royal memoralbilia and antiquarian manuscripts.
The photographs are presented with the catalogue descriptions.
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September 15
ON THIS DAY
On this day in 1890 Agatha Christie was born in Torquay. She was an English crime novelist, short story writer and playwright. She is best known for the 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections that revolve around the investigative work of such characters as Hercule Poirot & Jane Marple. In 1885 Jumbo the elephant was hit by a train and died. He was a 19th-century male African Bush Elephant born in the Sudan. He was sold to P. T. Barnum, who took him to America for exhibition. Barnum told the story that he died saving a young circus elephant, Tom Thumb, from being hit by the locomotive, but other witnesses did not support this.
CHILDHOOD CRICKET SCORING IN TORQUAY CHRISTIE (Agatha, 1891-1976, Detective Novelist) Fine Autograph Letter Signed ("Agatha Mallowan") to Mr Dodge, about the Cricket Club at Torquay’s Barton Road, she says that “The Cricket Club was certainly a central feature of my life as a child and one that will never pass from my memory - I was extremely proud of being allowed to help my father with the scoring and took it very seriously. When I am in Devon nowadays I often drive past the Cricket Ground just for the sake of the memories ... Chapel Hill where I used to go for walks with my nurse, and a field which is now houses used to have lambs which I loved - the Devon Rosery used to be there once, running alongside the Reservoir - the house, Ashfield, where I was born, & which was my home for forty and fifty years - is now only a memory - pulled down ....” , 2 sides 8vo., Winterbrook House, Wallingford, Berks, 9th January 1971 33392
BARNUM (Phineas T., 1810-1891, American Showman, Founder of the Barnum and Bailey Circus) Autograph instruction signed addressed to the “American Museum Admit Mr Tupper & friends at all times”, 4” x 4”, no place, 3rd October no year, 1870 38350
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