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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March 28
On This Day
On this day in 1910 Queen Ingrid of Denmark was born. She married King Frederik IX whose siblings included Queen Alexandra of Great Britain and Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia. In 1941 Virginia Woolf the British writer and central figure in the Bloomsbury Group committed suicide at the age of 59. She drowned herself by filling her overcoat pockets with stones and walking into the River Ouse near her home.
INGRID (Victoria Sofia, 1910-1972, daughter of Gustav VI of Sweden, wife of King Frederik IX of Denmark)
Charming court portrait photo signed and dated, showing her head and shoulders wearing a veil with her court dress and holding a bunch of roses, 11½” x 9”, no place, January 1928
23527
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
37165
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