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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January 25
On this day in 1881 Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell formed the Oriental Telephone Company and in 1915 he called from New York to San Francisco. In 1882 Virginia Woolf was born in London, England. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and Orlando, and the long essay A Room of One's Own, with its famous dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
BELL (Alexander Graham, 1847-1922,Inventor of the Telephone)
Fine Typed Letter Signed to Mr Lane, (the Honorable Franklin K. Lane, U.S. Secretary of the Interior), marked PERSONAL thanking him for his “note of August 4 enclosing copy of your admirable address relating to the ratification of the Peace Treaty by the Senate....”, saying that he has “read this with the very greatest interest and approval ...” and thanking him for letting him see it, 1 side 4to., Beinn Bhreagh, nr Baddeck, Nova Scotia, 15th August 1915, framed with a 5” x 7” Pach Bros. portrait of the inventor.
WOOLF ON MRS DALLOWAY
WOOLF (Virginia, 1882-1941, Novelist, Critic & Essayist)
Excellent Autograph Letter Signed to Mlle Monteil a French writer who had written a sympathetic critical analysis of Mrs. Dalloway, she starts by saying that she well remembers meeting her last winter and goes on to thank her “for your very generous and what is better, highly intelligent study of Mrs. Dalloway. I am very grateful to you for the care and skill which you have spent on my work - it seems to me one of the subtlest & most interesting studies of it that I have read. No doubt you have praised it too highly - of that an author cannot judge -but to be praised for the qualities one had wished to possess is a great pleasure & a rare one. I am particularly interested that a French critic should be so sympathetic; my faults are those, I should have said, that your race most abominates ...”, 1 side 4to., 52 Tavistock Square, 14th July 1930
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