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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April 27
On This Day
On this day in 1904 Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish poet and British Poet Laureate was born in Ballintubbert, Queen's County. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake. He was the father of actor Daniel Day-Lewis and documentary filmmaker and television chef Tamasin Day-Lewis.
In 1927 Inventor and electrical engineer Guglielmo Marconi divorced his first wife Beatrice O'Brien after 22 years of marriage and three children. At his request, the marriage was annulled so he could remarry. On 12th June 1927 Marconi married Maria Cristina Bezzi-Scali. They had one daughter. For unexplained reasons, Marconi left his entire fortune to his second wife and their only child, and nothing to the children of his first marriage.
DAY-LEWIS (Cecil, 1904-1972, from 1968 Poet Laureate)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Hancox, saying “I normally destroy all my work sheets & note books, which may give the one I send some scarcity-value, if no other. It contains the preliminary drafts of nearly all the poems which appear in my new book, Pegasus ... & two of the pastiche poems ... in An Italian Visit”, adding that “The whole thing seems to me quite illegible; but if you can find some University or other customer of temeritie [?] enough to buy it, I’d be delighted for you to do so”, 2 sides 8vo., Chatto and Windus Ltd., as from 96 Campden Hill Road, W.8., 19th June 1957
56161
MARCONI (Guglielmo, 1874-1937, Wireless Pioneer)
Autograph Letter Signed, to ‘Dear Sir’, about “your letter of the 11th inst in reply to our Advt in the Morning Post”, and asking him “to call at this office on Monday the 17th inst at 5 p m”, 1 side 8vo., Watergate House, York Buildings, Adelphi, W.C., 13th August 1908, recipent’s name and address obliterated at an early date in pen
55517
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