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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November 14
ON THIS DAY
On this day in 1948 Prince Charles was born. He is the eldest child and heir apparent of Queen Elizabeth II. He is the longest-serving Prince of Wales in British history, having held the position since 1952
In 1889 a New York World reporter, Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began her attempt to surpass the achievement of the fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around the world in under 80 days. She succeeded by finishing the trip in 72 days, 6 hours.
CHARLES (Philip Arthur George, b. 1948, Prince of Wales)
Fine Long Autograph Letter to ‘Dearest Nana’, Miss Helen Lightbody (d. 1987, nanny to Prince Charles and Princess Anne, 1948-1956), written on his last day at Gordonstoun, “ ... it seems so strange after almost 6 years & yet I shall be pleased to leave in many ways as I think one outgrows school at 18. Papa has just left for Canada having arrived last night for our last service and having said goodbye to some staff. Mummy comes this afternoon to open a new gymnasium & there are going to be hundreds of people here milling about ... I am spending the weekend at Innes House”, with Captain Iain Tennant, “with Mummy before flying down ...”, 4 sides 4to., Gordonstoun, Moray, 22nd July 1967
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VERNE (Jules, 1828-1905, French Science Fiction Writer)
Fine Autograph Letter signed to an unnamed correspondent saying that he hastens to “reply to your kind letter. The novel to which you refer is titled Sans Dessus Dessous [‘Topsy Turvy’] and it will be easy for you to get hold of the English translation. You have been led into a mistake. There is no question in this novel of transporting the earth into a hotter atmosphere, but only of changing the direction of the axis using a mortar cannon, fixed on the Equator, and firing it towards the South. In consequence the poles are displaced, the seas are displaced etc. You can see how elaborate in its effects would be the results of this operation ...”, 1 side 8vo., Amiens, 2nd June 1893
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