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 12
On This Day
In 1897 Vincent d'Indy's opera "Fervaal" premiered at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, he had worked on it for 6 years. In 1950 Pope Pius XII published his encyclical "On combating atheistic propaganda"
D’INDY (Vincent, 1851-1931, French Composer)
Autograph Letter Signed in French with translation, to an unnamed correspondent telling him that he is “by order of the Faculty, immobilised in my room (!) for 2 or 3 days, which is very annoying ... I am relying on you to take the Orchestral Class today when they are due to read through a work by Mlle. de Marcillac, with Mlle. Ménage singing. Have a look also at the choruses” in case his correspondent has to conduct “the concert on Friday ... Tell Le Fleau to inform my Wednesday pupils in the IIIrd and IVth years that I cannot take them tomorrow”, cancelling a dinner engagement, “have a little look at the things Raynaud is doing, which are worrying me. Lastly, I am rather relying on you to look after the Schola for the next 2 days, when the School will be without its Director, its Secretary-General and its book-keeper!”, 2 sides 8vo. with conjugate blank on mourning paper, no place, no date, c. 1900
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PIUS XII (1876-1958, Eugenio Pacelli, from 1939 Pope)
Colour Portrait Postcard Photo by Alinari, signed ‘Pius pp. XII.’ on unused verso, showing him nearly half length, three quarter face, in white skull cap, white edged purple cassock and a broad stole embroidered in red and gold in a Renaissance design, stamps of the Vatican Archive in background of recto and of Vatican Library on verso, 5¾” x 4”, no date, circa 1950, almost imperceptible crease across right half of image
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