Every day Sophie Dupre presents two items from her large stock of signed photographs, autograph letters, autographs for sale, royal memoralbilia and antiquarian manuscripts.
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January 10
ON THIS DAY
On this day in 1857 Jules Verne married Honorine de Viane Morel. In May 1856, he had travelled to Amiens to be the best man at the wedding of a Nantes friend, Auguste Lelarge, to Aimée du Fraysse de Viane. He became friendly with the family and fell for the bride's sister, a widow aged 26 with two young children. Hoping to find a secure source of income, as well as a chance to court Morel in earnest, he jumped at her brother's offer to go into business with a brokerage. With his financial situation finally looking promising, Verne won the favor of Morel and her family.
In 1855 Mary Russell Mitford died at the age of 67. She was an author and dramatist. She is best known for 'Our Village', a series of sketches of village scenes and vividly drawn characters.
VERNE (Jules, 1828-1905, French Science Fiction Writer)
Fine Autograph Letter signed to an unnamed correspondent saying that “The novel to which you refer is titled Sans Dessus Dessous [‘Topsy Turvy’] and it will be easy for you to get hold of the English translation. You have been led into a mistake. There is no question in this novel of transporting the earth into a hotter atmosphere, but only of changing the direction of the axis using a mortar cannon, fixed on the Equator, and firing it towards the South. In consequence the poles are displaced, the seas are displaced etc. You can see how elaborate in its effects would be the results of this operation ...”, 1 side 8vo., Amiens, 2nd June 1893
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MITFORD (Mary Russell, 1787-1855, Novelist)
Autograph Letter Signed to ‘My dear Sir’, probably Samuel Carter Hall, 1800-1889, asking that “(if it is not inserted in this Month’s Magazine) you will have the goodness to send the M.S. of the little article on the Cottage Gardens together with the next No. to W.W. Ogbourne Esq.”, with a magnificent engraving of a Gothic memorial plaque to Miss Mitford signed by L.W. Wyon, 8½” x 6¾”, the letter 1 side 8vo., c. 1835
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