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 01
ON THIS DAY
On this day in 1651 Charles II Stuart was crowned king of Scotland. He was king of Scotland from 1649 and king of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 until his death.
In 1940 Harold Wilson married the poet Mary Baldwin in the chapel of Mansfield College, Oxford. He was a British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1964 to 1970 and 1974 to 1976
RARE AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED WITH INITIALS
CHARLES II (1630-1685, King of Great Britain, restored 1660)
Autograph note in the King’s hand signed with initials “C.R.” to “My Ld of Bath”, Peter MEWS, (1619-1706, Bishop of Bath & Wells, 1672-1684, of Winchester from 1684), “pray goe imediatly and acquainte my Ld Tres: with what I have commanded you”, and on the other side an autograph note by the Bishop “I recd this the 24th March 1678/9 and the comand was that I should gett out of the way & not appear ... This note is writt wth ye knigs [sic] own hand”, on the back is Mews’ autograph endorsement “The kings note, 24 March 1678/9”, 2 sides 4to., no place, 24th March 1678 modern reckoning, 1679
37890
WILSON (Sir James Harold, 1916-1995, Labour Prime Minister 1964-1970 and 1974-1976)
Fine portrait photo by Vivienne signed and inscribed on the mount by the sitter and on the photograph by the photographer, he has written “With thanks and all best wishes for the future” with the date, the image shows him while Prime Minister, head and shoulders, full face, smiling slightly, 9” x 8” in mount 12” x 10”, London, June 1970
32076
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