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 28
On this day in 1885 the Municipal Council of Calais commissioned Auguste Rodin's sculpture 'The Burghers of Calais' and in 1841 Henry Morton Stanley, the explorer who found Livingstone was born
RODIN (Auguste, 1840-1917, French Sculptor)
Autograph Letter Signed to ‘Madame’, in French with translation, saying that he would be “totally and so happy to see you, to pay my respects”, asking her if she is in Paris, to “Tell me your news”, and to accept “my lively and grateful respects”, 1 side 8vo. and conjugate blank, 182 rue de l’Université, [Paris], 11th July 1908, faintest trace of transparent guard in blank area of hinge
(Translation)
11th July 1908 182 rue de l’Université
Madame, I would be totally and so happy to see you, to pay my respects. Are you in Paris Tell me your news.
Accept, Madame, my lively and grateful respects
A Rodin
STANLEY (Sir Henry Morton, 1841-1904, Explorer who found Livingstone)
Fine long Autograph Letter Signed to Miss Felicie Hegemans, regretting “it has not been my good fortune to be able to pay a visit to the kindly, sympathetic & warm hearted people of Cadogan Gardens” including “yourself & the sister graces who did me the honor to escort me round Hampton”, as for “Mons. Hegemans”, he fears he will “never have the courage to pay a visit to a stranger, simply because I am on a visit to Anvers ... Even in London it is a difficult matter to get me out of my chambers”, however, “Your father is such a friend of Mons. Moscheles”, (Felix, 1833-1917), who lived in Cadogan Gardens and had recently painted Stanley’s portrait, and “I should look more to him to bring us together ... Should I be in Anvers it would be better for Mons Hegemans to call on me at my hotel ... it would not require much persuasion to induce me to accompany him to his House especially as the charming Miss Felicie would be there”, 4 sides 8vo, Balinakill, Clachan, Argyllshire, 9th July 1885, outer sides a trifle browned
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