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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December 27
ON THIS DAY
On this day in 1822 Louis Pasteur was born. He was a French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurisation. He is remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and preventions of diseases, and his discoveries have saved countless lives ever since.
In 1879 E. M. Forster was born. He was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society.
[PASTEUR (Louis, 1822-1895, French chemist, developer of pasteurisation)]
Fine woodburytype photo by Walery, showing him, three quarter length, standing leaning against a piece of furniture, with facsimile signature, accompanied by a printed biography, 16½” x 12”, no place, no date, library stamp in top left hand corner
25689
FORSTER (Edward Morgan, 1879-1970, Novelist & Essayist, Author of ‘A Passage to India’)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed (‘E. M. Forster’) to Mr Layton politely declining to be interviewed, “I fear that I am unlikely to be free that day owing to College Meeting, and I think, too, that I should be unlikely to be helpful. I have heard very little music since I discussed my opinion in ‘Monitor’ some years ago, and I should have nothing new to say ...”, 1 side 4to., King’s College Cambridge headed paper, 20th November 1962
36329
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