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 21
ON THIS DAY
On this day in 1905 Albert Einstein's paper, "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", was published in the journal Annalen der Physik. This paper reveals the relationship between energy and mass. This paper led to the mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc².
In 1854 Pope Benedict XV was born. He was Pope from 1914 until his death. His pontificate was largely overshadowed by World War I and its political, social and humanitarian consequences in Europe.
EINSTEIN (Albert, 1879-1955, German born American Mathematical Physicist, Nobel Prize Winner)
Superb photograph signed and dated on the mount also signed in pencil by the photographer Alice Holway, showing him the year that he died with a younger woman by his side, both half-length, he full face with a splendid smile, she three-quarter face and a little serious, 4½” x 4½” in mount 6½” x 4½”, no place but Princeton, 1955 some wear on the edges
38296
BENEDICT XV (Giacomo Paolo Giovanni della Chiesa, 1854-1922, from 1914 Pope)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Don Giovanni GENOCCHI (1860-1926, of the Congregation of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart), in Italian with translation, saying he has “this moment received some very sad news, regarding a step which Padre Egidi was about to take”, the Pope “can hardly say how much I fear the scandal to which the news refers, both for the damage that it could do to the faithful and for the dishonour it would bring on the Congregation of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. But more than all it is Padre Egidi’s soul that concerns me”, he charges Genocchi “to talk to him not only as a fellow member of your Order, ... the Pope would have come in person to draw him back from the brink of the precipice. And that if the unfortunate son has contracted some obligation within the natural order, I authorise you to tell him that the Pope will also make payment to whoever could prefer any claim ...”, addressed to Genocchi, 2 sides 4to., 22nd June 1916,
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