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 02
ON THIS DAY
On this day in 1845 David Livingstone married Mary Moffat. He was a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa, one of the most popular national heroes of the late 19th-century in Victorian Britain.
In1920 Isaac Asimov was born. He was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. He was known for his works of science fiction and popular science, notably I Robot and the Foundation Trilogy.
LIVINGSTONE (David, 1813-1873, Scottish Missionary & Explorer)
The final four sides of a superb Autograph Letter Signed to the Rev. Edwin SIDNEY (1798-1872), “But after all it is not the false or even true philosophers whose sympathies well up to all this world of woe. It is the men in whose hearts the love of Christ is the controlling motive that feel for all the lost ... of our race whether at home and abroad ...”, he continues about his plans to “experiment with the tame buffaloes of India - they are so like the wild ones of Africa ... I propose to use as beasts of burden - and if they withstand the evil effects of the bite of this insect we shall confer a greater boon on Africa than you will on England by ... At present no beast of burden exists there ...”, 4 sides 8vo., no place, 1866
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ASIMOV (Isaac, 1920-1992, Russian-American Biochemist, Sci-Fi Writer)
Typed Letter Signed to Erle M. Korshak of Shasta Publishers, Chicago, recalling that “at the Science Fiction conference, I lifted some of Shasta’s display books for review”, telling him that Asimov’s reviews of “Heinlein’s ‘The Man Who Sold the Moon’ and Leinster’s ‘Sidewise in Time’ appeared in the 14 August issue of the Daily Compass ... the reviews were quite favourable” and offering a carbon copy if they need one, he has just received “a review copy of ‘The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1950’. (Frederic Fell). Sort of ironic, isn’t it?”, with a P.S. 1 side folio, 762 Broadway, 14th August 1950
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