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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February 27
On this day in1807 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the poet and author of Hiawatha, was born in Portland, Maine and in 1888 Lotte Lehmann the soprano famed for her parts in Der Rosenkavalier and Fidelio was born in Germany.
LEHMANN (Lotte, 1888-1976, German Soprano)
Postcard photo by Setzer of Vienna, signed, showing her full length in gorgeous medieval costume and coronet, 5½” x 3½”, no place, no date, c. 1925, light remains of gum on blank verso
FAIR COPY OF ‘EXCELSIOR’
LONGFELLOW (Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882, American Poet)
Fine Autograph copy of his poem ‘Excelsior’ signed in full and dated, the poem was originally composed in 1841 so this must have been written out for someone, 1 side oblong 8vo.,
The shades of night were falling fast,
As through an Alpine village passed
A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice,
A banner with the strange device,
Excelsior! 1863
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