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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August 02
ON THIS DAY
On this day in 1922 Alexander Graham Bell died at the age of 75. He was a Scottish scientist and inventor who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. His father, grandfather, and brother had all been associated with work on elocution and speech, and both his mother and wife were deaf, which profoundly influenced his life's work and he was awarded the first U.S. patent for the telephone in 1876. He considered his most famous invention an intrusion on his real work as a scientist and refused to have a telephone in his study. In 1865 Lewis Carroll published "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". On 4th July 1862 he invented the outline of the story that eventually became his first and greatest commercial success. He told the story to Alice Liddell and she begged him to write it down, and he eventually presented her with a handwritten, illustrated manuscript entitled Alice's Adventures Under Ground in November 1864.
BELL (Alexander Graham, 1847-1922,Inventor of the Telephone) Fine Typed Letter Signed to Mr Lane, (the Honorable Franklin K. Lane, U.S. Secretary of the Interior), marked PERSONAL thanking him for his “note of August 4 enclosing copy of your admirable address relating to the ratification of the Peace Treaty by the Senate....”, saying that he has “read this with the very greatest interest and approval ...” and thanking him for letting him see it, 1 side 4to., Beinn Bhreagh, nr Baddeck, Nova Scotia, 15th August 1915, framed with a 5” x 7” Pach Bros. portrait of the inventor. 28779
DODGSON WRITES TO A YOUNG FRIEND CARROLL (Lewis, Charles Dodgson, 1832-1898, Author of ‘Alice in Wonderland’) Autograph Letter Signed in his characteristic purple ink, signed “C. L. Dodgson” to on of his child friends “My dear Mab”, (Mabel Burton) saying that “That would be too late - people crowd in so after 10, that I like to come away about then ...” and hoping they will manage “some other day ...”, 1 side 8vo., Christ Church, 24th June 1880 30418
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